Boarding the branding bandwagon: A make-or-break year

Branding can happen naturally, through comparative advantage, or by the marketing and advertising skills typically taught in business schools. Eye-catching sceneries depict the natural type, Bangladesh's RMG (ready-made garment) prowess exemplifies the comparative advantage, and classroom techniques constitute the marketing/advertising skills. There is also a place for coordinating various assets...

Robots coming: Supporting workers, rather than jobs

A knitting factory in Bangladesh brings together the past, present, and future. On one floor, workers knit by hand. On another, people and machines do the work together. And on a third floor, there are only robots.This building might seem like an anachronism, given the accepted wisdom that robots will...