Global is everywhere today. You can hardly turn on the news or read an op-ed without hearing how our world is growing more crowded and interconnected. Yet I was dismayed to read a troubling piece in Sunday's New York Times about foreign language suffering cuts yet again in elementary...

Today, because the Connecticut school district in which we live chose not to broadcast President Obama's speech to students, I'll be picking up my fourth-graders to watch the President live in our home. Although my husband and I have the luxury of this option because we're writers with flexible schedules,...

I've spent a lot of time traveling internationally. Some for business and some for pleasure, but regardless of the reason, I always need more cash then I seem to have on hand.

Despite the realization last fall that our financial systems are uncomfortably interconnected around the world, getting cash...

In these turbulent economic times, companies are hunting for opportunities to differentiate themselves from competitors and strengthen their organizations. Leaders need to manage for today -- satisfying customers, reassuring shareholders, streamlining processes and retaining their best people. But they also have an opportunity to rethink communications in order to redefine...

It's being called the ultimate outsourcing: Americans looking for jobs overseas. With IBM's recent announcement of Project Match -- in which the company actively encourages employees to take their pink slips and apply for jobs in China, India and Brazil -- more companies are sure to follow suit.

Some...

President-Elect Obama has rightly focused on recovery for small business (see: this PDF). As Obama points out, 99% of U.S. employers ARE small businesses, which create more than half of all private-sector jobs and most new-job growth. They, not big multi-nationals (MNCs) will power recovery. Obama's plan is a...

An avalanche of criticism from English-only advocates has tumbled down around US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's recent comment that Americans should get their children to study Spanish or another second language. Obama is absolutely right. We live in a global economy and whether it's Spanish, French, Russian or...

On August 8, the world arrives in China for the 29th Summer Olympic Games. Not all of the world, of course, but an estimated 3.5 million will be on hand somewhere in the Middle Kingdom (in addition to the primary host city of Beijing, official events will also take place...

Continued market jitters, increased layoffs and the decline of the U.S. dollar are causing angst in professional circles here in the U.S. Worries about the viability of sub-prime mortgage lending have hit financial systems hard, while soaring oil prices have affected most every other sector. Economic slowdown, recession, hard times...

This fall, more than 200,000 American college students will set out on a glorious adventure. After receiving well wishes from worried parents, they will board planes for various destinations to spend either part or all of the academic year abroad.

My nephew, a junior at Middlebury College,...