Cheap is the new chic. That’s what the trader said when he gave me the name of a new place to cut my hair. I told him that my old barber had packed up and moved out.
Cheap is the new chic. That’s what the trader said when he gave me the name of a new place to cut my hair. I told him that my old barber had packed up and moved out.
USA has a new President –Elect, Barack Obama. He is truly the “people’s choice”. This years’ election campaign was a grass root movement – resulting in record high voting among younger generation Americans. In the midst of this we fear for and see increased unemployment, and are in the middle of the financial...
“You tend to go around thinking and comparing a lot when you live in another country”, says Anders Permeus, who has a law degree from the University of Stockholm, a Master in German law from the University of Heidelberg, and specializes in IT law. He is an attorney at the Stockholm office of the...
It’s not a household name like Ikea or Volvo, but Elekta and its Leksell Gamma Knives are world renowned in cancer treatment. “The company was forced to go out into the world early on, which is why we went into the U.S., Japan, and China,” says Tomas Puusepp, CEO of Elekta AB.
After probably the longest election campaigns ever, the American people made a clear and historic choice in choosing Barack Obama as their new president. He has been warmly welcomed and congratulated from around the world. There are expectations of a new era both in Washington and in international relations.
The U.S. presidential election is coming closer, and it certainly is one of the most exciting election campaigns in a long time. One feature that stands out is that young voters have become active and registered to vote in record numbers. Another not unrelated feature is the increasing use of technology and web-based social...
Despite a lot of effort and early agreement on most outstanding issues, trade ministers from the world’s leading countries were unable to finally clinch a deal when they met in Geneva for the Doha Round at the end of July. By many media accounts the outcome was “collapse,” but even if there has been...
“The entire Warren Buffett-group is facing a generational shift and is focusing more on Europe. This is why they picked a young Swede with a broad international experience,“ says Anders Berggren, formerly president of Husqvarna in the U.S, and chairman of SACC-USA 2003-2004. On October 1st he became CEO for a billion dollar company...
Globalization has opened new markets for many companies both small and large. Often, these company expansions require employees to live abroad for shorter or longer periods of time.
One of the world’s fastest growing companies sits in the outskirts of Philadelphia. It was born in Sweden, but in 2006 it pulled up its roots in southern Sweden and moved its headquarters to the U.S. ”You need a strong American presence if you want to attract American customers, and besides, we want to...
