More than five years ago I documented in great detail plagiarism in the PhD thesis of current Serbian Finance minister Siniša Mali. Finally, now, academic standards and the autonomy of the Belgrade University won over political influence – the Belgrade University acknowledged the blatant plagiarism and annulled the thesis. The
Are US manufacturing jobs lost to Mexico? In the year 2000. there were about 19 million manufacturing jobs in the US and there were about 8 million manufacturing jobs in Mexico. By the 2010. the US lost about 6 million manufacturing jobs. During the same period Mexico gained only
Over the last couple of years I have had a chance to talk to many CEOs of large corporations. Unfortunately, most of them do not get it. What is this that they do not get? They do not get how fast our society is evolving. Let me give you an example.
Recently I learned that my students created these two Internet memes about me and my classes (could be that more of them exist on dark Internet). But you know what, I used to do that too! And even before Internet memes existed. When I was in grad school my favorite professor
In einem Interview mit Die Zeit sagt Thomas Piketty: “Wenn ich die Deutschen heute sagen höre, dass sie einen moralischen Umgang mit Schulden pflegen und fest daran glauben, dass Schulden zurückgezahlt werden müssen, dann denke ich: Das ist doch ein großer Witz! Deutschland ist das Land, das nie seine Schulden
In a recent interview with Die Zeit (translated by Gavin Schalliol), economist and author of bestselling book “Capital in the 21st Century” Thomas Piketty said: “When I hear the Germans say that they maintain a very moral stance about debt and strongly believe that debts must be repaid, then I
Eugene F. Fama and Lars P, Hansen of the University of Chicago and Robert J. Shiller of Yale University received the prize “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” the Nobel committee said today. Why am I writing this post? I am writing it because in one of my papers
Taken from a CV of one of my ex students:“I am fluent in German, Turkish, English and Chinese. I speak well French and Korean.” She is 22. She asked me to write her a reference letter. There is something wrong with this universe. In some parallel universe in which justice
Teaching evaluations that students give to their professors are one of the most important things for any university. Recently, here at EBS, we have switched from paper based evaluations of professors to electronic ones. This modernisation makes things more efficient. Usually that is a great thing. In this case however,
Current university students were born between 1992 and 1995. They belong to the Generation Y, also known as Digital Natives or Millennials. In this video I describe what I believe is the right approach to teach these generations and the generations that are about to start studying. I describe how