P&G hunts opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid
One of the key economic questions facing industrialized nations such as Canada is: Can we ever sell enough to the low-income consumers of the developing world to make up for the manufacturing base that...
View ArticleTailor contracts when cultural distance widens
As business markets are becoming increasingly globalized, it is important for managers to communicate effectively with their partners from other cultures when negotiating business contracts. A new...
View ArticleMarketing feature: Business without borders
By Phil Griffiths, CIBC Global Transaction Banking Canada is an export nation and globalization is a common word in the business community with foreign trade responsible for about 45% of Canada’s GDP....
View ArticleMarketing feature: Preparing for globalization
By Phil Griffiths, CIBC Global Transaction Banking Canada is an export nation and globalization is a common word in the business community with foreign trade responsible for about 45% of Canada’s GDP....
View ArticleMarketing feature: What to expect when you’re expanding
By Phil Griffiths, CIBC Global Transaction Banking By the time companies have selected the market they want to enter, as a first step they should have already assessed the demographics, geographic...
View ArticleGrowing wealth gap threatens globalization
By Ben Hirschler LONDON – A backlash against rising inequality – evident from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring – risks derailing the advance of globalization and represents a threat to economies...
View ArticleDiversification: Over time, it’s the surest way to protect RRSP value
For Ottawa-based federal civil servant Edie Clark, picking assets for her RRSP is a yearly ordeal. “I want safety and I want to make some money,” she says. “For any money that I put into my account, I...
View ArticleIt’s time to open legal doors
When it comes to monopolistic protection, no one does it better than the legal profession. As businesses expand internationally, so also does the demand for transnational legal services. However,...
View ArticleSeeing risk beyond industrial boundaries
When TIME Magazine announced that its “person of the year” for 2011 would be “the protester,” many were left scratching their heads. The Occupy movement had offered much fodder for television camera...
View ArticleThe geography of pricing luxury brands online
When it comes to luxury brands, you expect to pay a high price! In fact, some would say that the higher the price, the better the product and that is what makes it exclusive! Tom Ford, the consummate...
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The Canadian Disadvantage
BloombergTD's chief economist Craig Alexander explains how Canada must step up its game. The global economy is going through tectonic changes. Twenty years ago, industrialized nations represented...
View ArticleBuild a diverse team to achieve global success
Canadian companies have a natural advantage when it comes to doing business globally, said Dani Reiss, president and chief executive of Canada Goose Inc., which in a little more than 10 years has...
View ArticleAdjusting risk to the global market’s ‘new normal’
In a recently released report, Don Wilkinson, Deloitte Canada’s vice-chair and leader of its Director Series’ program, argues it’s high time Canadian businesses take the new global economy reality by...
View ArticleThe world has never had it so good – thanks in part to capitalism
Comment Contrary to what environmentalists, anti-globalisation campaigners and other economic curmudgeons like to think, the world is not going to hell in a handbasket. Immense problems remain, of...
View ArticleCrimean crisis harsh reminder of risks posed by interconnected global economy
When global supply chains fall victim to political events, the right question to ask is not if risk has gone up, says Walid Hejazi, associate professor, University of Toronto’s Rotman School of...
View ArticleRussia and Western Europe are on the brink of a lose-lose sanctions war over...
Ukraine needs debt forgiveness, not more borrowing. Bribing Putin may also help The on-going drama in Ukraine is rife with paradox. Russian special forces “liberated” Crimea without resistance, and now...
View ArticleAndrew Coyne: Criticisms that corporations are sitting on piles of ‘dead’...
This article appears in the October edition of the Financial Post Magazine. Visit the iTunes store to download the iPad edition of this month’s issue. The phrase “dead money” is one of Mark Carney’s...
View ArticleChina has taken the first step towards opening its financial system. It may...
Comment Call it “globalisation 2.0”. China’s integration into the global economy is now a 35-year-old story, dating back to the free market reforms of Deng Xiaoping. For both China and the West, the...
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Terence Corcoran: Viva la globalización! Zuckerberg trumps Trump in China
As far as I can tell, nobody asked Apple CEO Tim Cook at his company’s product event in California Monday whether he’s enthusiastic about Donald Trump’s repeated call for the company to move its...
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Get ready to see this globalization ‘Elephant Chart’ over and over again
Globalization was the driving force behind the growth miracles in emerging markets, lifting millions of people out of poverty over the past few decades. Now, a backlash against how the global income...
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