Leaders: born or made? Sales people: born or made? Terrorists: born or made? Geniuses: born or made? Artists? Great men? Great women? Bad drivers? ??? The answer, if you care to read all of these, is both. There is a certain ‘you got it or you don’t’ aspect and then there is a ‘use it [...]

I wrote my master’s thesis on economic geography, the theory that as free trade spreads around the world, all boats rise together (a vast over-simplification). The theory also holds that when some boats are caught in low tides, the others will buoy them up. In grad school, we too easily glossed over the (we thought) [...]

The March/April 2009 issue of Forward magazine hits mailboxes next week. Forward is a trade association magazine from Association Growth Partners that provides a global perspective on the metals industry for members of MSCI. The March/April issue focuses on confidence and the economy.