A symbol of Japan’s post-war recovery and rise as an economic power, Sony has been toppled by companies like Samsung, Nintendo Wii and Apple. In-house rivalries, prejudice and tradition have been bad for Sony Corp.’s core business, consumer electronics. Under the leadership of Sir Howard Stringer though the company is consolidating itself and planning to build its own entertainment cloud platform to take advantage of its innumerable assets. In the late 90s I recall my father buying the brand-new Sony Trinitron TV and

Chinese politics has been centered around economic growth over the last three decades. It is common belief, among its leaders, that a growth rate of 8% a year is the minimum necessary to reclaim the Communist Party’s legitimacy and prevent upheavals. This mentality has led to the decades long neglect of public healthcare, limiting government’s ability to control epidemics and risk factors. Ultimately, this can turn into the greatest threat Chinese will have to face. The 2003 SARS crisis exposed for the first time the weaknesses

Galileo Galilei, the founder of modern science, was sentenced to house arrest for having declared the geocentric model wrong. Even though he had based his considerations on empirical observations, he was prosecuted because he was contradicting the Holy Scripture, because he had committed a sin. The equivalence between illegal acts and sins, illustrated clearly with Galileo, is the main feature of states belonging to this model. Religious precepts constitute the law while legal obligations correspond to religious duties. The name given to

The role of Germany in the current eurocrisis will be remembered as that of a catalyst. Its rigid politicians hand in hand with the Bumptious french president – who behaved until recently as if France lived in a charmed world where borrowing was its privilege – are the bugaboo that is scaring investors. Here are Germany’s mistakes from the rise of the crisis. To start with, it is responsible for mismanaging the first Greek default by approving a bailout package of €45 billion. In managing a financial crisis it is