Professor Elam

Harvard Professor Pankaj Ghemawat says Tom Friedman has it all wrong-the world is not flat. In fact while we may be wired, we ain’t communicating or venturing nearly as much across national boundaries as Tom suggested. He points to the trade between the US and Canada and the lack of commuication intercepts into Russia as examples.  His book will be Global Strategies in a World of Differences.

This is the prominent article in this Sunday’s DMN and frankly quite a challenge to Friedman’s long running best seller.  But it reflects what I have thought and what Jim Rogers and Business Week just said for example about India-lots of infrastructure and red tape remain.  Be sure to read this one, a fresh look at globalization.