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This is the second of two posts on changes I think need to be made for a new, more sustainable economic and social system. Click here to read Part I. The full article exploring these interventions was first published in August 2008 on Goldmau.com.

Since the early part of the last decade, I have uncomfortably witnessed the unstoppable force of mass consumerism and economic leverage take over every aspect of our system in complete disregard for the social aspects. However, it was not until this recent “quantity over quality” takeover engulfed the cultural fabric of our society that I started to really question the future viability of Mass Capitalism. It seems to me what we need in its place is a new, more qualitative capitalism.

In the first post, I explored two of four areas of intervention for restructuring the imbalances of today’s capitalism:  monetary policy and globalization management. In this post, I discuss the latter two: education and regulatory transparency.
Continue reading ‘A New Qualitative Capitalism Part II’

Continue reading ‘A New Qualitative Capitalism Part I’

Read the latest issue of the GBR online at http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/091/

In this issue:

Recognizing Organizational Culture in Managing Change

Structural changes can serve as the initial intervention for shifting culture.

Mark Mallinger, PhD, Don Goodwin, MBA, and Tetsuya O’Hara, MBA

The Successful Expatriate Leader in China

Expatriate managers must consider the cultural dimensions of leadership.

Matthew Earnhardt

Private vs. Public Real Estate Markets

How are these markets related in terms of risk and return?

Abraham U. Park, PhD

Continue reading ‘Winter 2009 GBR Issue Now Live’

This is the second in a series of posts reporting on the hot button issues discussed at the 2008 Entertainment Supply Chain Academy Conference. See the first post here.

Devendra Mishra, MBA

Since 2004, when the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary became members of the European Union, these countries have seen the emergence of an ever-growing middle class. Over the last four years, the changing home video market in these territories has presented Hollywood studios and their distribution partners with a set of unique challenges for market growth of DVD and video games. At the Academy, a group of executives shared their experiences with the video supply chains in Central and Eastern Europe. They highlighted the lack of retail infrastructure and information standards for trading in the supply chain and identified the following drawbacks to doing business there:

• vendor inventory management,
• rampant piracy,
• product pricing,
• gray market,
• unknown royalty payments for Blu-ray,
• limitations posed by copyright encoding in corporate businesses where content protection is unnecessary, and
• the difficulty of getting answers to intellectual property matters.

Continue reading ‘The Global Entertainment Market’