The Internships

Although the London program has run for  decades, this is only the third term of the students having real internships abroad, so it's still really in the startup phase. We are about half way through the internships now and we are getting enough feedback from the students to guess a bit about how things are going,…

Doing Business in Prague

Czechs do not seem very assertive as a rule; probably as a result of the suppression of individuality under the Communist regime. Everybody was supposed to be equal, a part of the crowd, to be "grey, average, dumb, and numb". However, the Czech Republic is business friendly: there are multinationals investing heavily in the Czech Republic -…

Prague – Business Consulting

So the reason for this trip to Prague is that the students have an assignment here. Our partner in Prague picked two companies based in Prague that  want to expand to the US and UK markets. The Czech companies have questions about how and where to expand, how much to spend on setting up advertising and distribution,…

Farleys for Hire

This is an interesting business to tour. A bit of a challenge because they don't really have anything set up for tourists, but the owner graciously showed us around himself. He is the  second generation Farley in the business of renting furniture, fixtures, and props by the week to movie studios, music studios, celebrity photo…

Sustainable Energy 1

What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau The key to saving energy (and money) is to not use the energy in the first place.  A negawatt is a negative watt - energy that you don’t use from any source - and…