Cyberwarfare is an increasing risk in 2017, as state actors develop and deploy sophisticated cyber capabilities that threaten critical infrastructure and assets such as power, water, financial, information, military, and command and control networks. Over a...
The Issue of the Year for 2016 is to Build G7 Cyber-Security Norms. Boston Global Forum (BGF) provided input to the agenda for the G7 Ise-Shima Summit. Global Economy and Trade, Development, and Quality Infrastructure Investment were three themes of the summit. Given...
Dr Dara O'Rourke has spent the last two decades researching the environmental, social and health impacts of global production systems. His research has evolved to include the study of governmental and non-governmental strategies for monitoring and accountability and...
[For Part 2, please click here] Boston Global Forum (BGF) had an opportunity to sit down with Professor Kent Jones of Babson College. Dr. Jones specializes in trade policy and institutional issues, particularly those focusing on the World Trade Organization. He has...
Western multinationals are behind disasters like the Bangladesh factory collapse. Will public outrage and a new agreement with unions lead to improvements for workers? On April 24, the Rana Plaza garment fac- tory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,129 workers and...
In the wake of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse, which killed more than 1,100 Bangladeshi garment workers, a group of retailers formed a pact to prevent future disasters. Some firms hesitated to sign the legally binding contract, fearing litigation. The labor...
On April 24, 2013 the Rana Plaza factory building collapsed in the Savar industrial district outside of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Over 1,100 people were killed in the worst industrial accident since over 2,000 people were killed (and 150,000 injured) in the...
This is a series of videos used to train managers in China to address labor disputes. Credit owed to Professor Arnold Zack of the Harvard Law School and Professor Tom Kochan of the MIT Sloan School of Management. 1) What Chinese Managers Need to Know and Do: Lessons...