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Topics include:
--How demographic changes affect consumer and financial markets.
--International migration and its impact on high-tech industries.
--Geopolitical risks: Dictatorships and failed states.
--Imbalances in the global economy.
--The global crisis and the crisis in Europe.
--The rise of the emerging-market multinationals.
--Chinese investments in Africa.
--The impact of growing inequality.
--Women's status in the global economy.
--The rise of the global middle-class of consumers.
--The high-net-worth elite and its consumption behavior.
--The transformative power of technology.
--Institutions and economic development.
--Global entrepreneurship.
--Sustainability.
--Sugarcane ethanol in Brazil.
--The trials and tribulations of the financial system.
--The global powers of the 21st century.
--The future of global currencies.
--Coping with uncertainty and complexity.
Mauro F. Guillen
Anthony L. Davis Director of The Lauder Institute
Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management
The Wharton School
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