Test Your Contextual Intelligence

The MIB program is characterized by students and faculty who delve into the hard questions of international business with relish. These are questions that are not easily answered by a single book, class, discipline, or school of thought. They herald a future where the world and the world of business are ever more interconnected, where the Front Page meets the Business Page.  

This series of Ten Questions reflects the critical and complex questions that are the foundation of the MIB program. Click on a question below to read the perspectives from Fletcher experts. Do you have a question you would like to see answered here? Disagree with one of our Fletcher experts? Let us know. Write to us at internationalbusiness@tufts.edu

1. Forget BRICs. Are the U.S. & Eurozone tomorrow’s emerging markets?
2. Who wins in the Chinese market: the game theorist or the diplomat?
3. Does microfinance forestall political upheavals? Or does it cause them?
4. What can UNICEF teach Unilever about succeeding in emerging markets?
5. Will sovereign wealth funds tilt the balance of global power?
6. Is clean water the new oil?
7. Nano. Tweet. Long tail. What’s the next big small thing?
8. Will cheeseburger cravings drive the next wave of colonization?
9. Africa: The continent of Good Hope?  Is it real this time?
10. Bottom-up or top-down?  Which is the fastest route to economic development?