Hitler: I am Looking Straight into Your Sick Eyes!
By Yoram Yahav

On May 22, 2012, during a dinner organized by the German chapter of YPO/WPO (Young and World President Organization), I, Yoram Yahav, son of Eugene and Kathy, grandson of Antal and Carolina, all victims of Adolf  Hitler’s “Final Solution” program – was eating dinner as a privileged VIP guest at The Reichstag Parliament… Here I was, at ten o’clock at night, sitting across some wonderful and successful German friends, but could not stop thinking of the feeling of closure taking over me… More>

Reverse Innovation Revisited: What the Poor Teach the Rich
By Prof. Shlomo Maital

In an earlier blog I mentioned business professor Vijay Govindarajan’s new book about ‘reverse innovation’ (innovating for the poor, leveraging the result for the rich). Here is an excerpt from an excellent YouTube talk by Prof. Govindarajan about this important idea.

“What is reverse innovation? Why is it so important? What is it that multinationals must do to master reverse innovation? More>

A Sustainable Bottom Line
By David Miron-Wapner

Business means to make money, and so it must if it has any pretense of success. Yet companies are beginning to perceive that corporate responsibility and sustainability, as an all embracing concept of good corporate citizenship, offers opportunities to add positively to the bottom line. Corporate value will be increasingly tied to satisfying the needs of a broad array of stakeholders over time, rather than today’s narrow focus only on maximizing value for shareholders… More>

Peter van de Werken’s Rainbowed Rose at Keukenhof
By Prof. Shlomo Maital

At Keukenhof, we saw an “innovation” – a multi-colored rose, known as the rainbowed rose. No, it’s not painted. It’s a real rose. It’s created by introducing colored water to the rose’s stem, but in a manner that the colors reach the petals at different places.

The inventor, Peter van de Werken keeps the process a secret… More>