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Why Your Airport May No Longer Resemble a Luxury Mall
Business, Carol Ryan, Published on 14/02/2022
» The airport luxury boutique became a staple of the pre-pandemic travel boom. Now it may be heading for the departure gate.
For Fashion Brands, Green Is the Hardest Color to Sell
Business, Carol Ryan, Published on 08/11/2021
» If the fashion world wants to have less of an impact on the planet, the best solution would be to produce less. But well-known brands still seem to think sales can keep ticking up as usual.
FAA Plans Warnings to Pilots, Airlines Over New 5G Rollout
Business, Andrew Tangel & Ryan Tracy, Published on 01/11/2021
» US air-safety regulators are preparing to issue warnings to pilots and airlines about potential interference with key cockpit safety systems by a new 5G wireless service slated to go live as soon as early December, according to current and former government and aviation industry officials briefed on the matter.
House Bills Seek to Break Up Amazon, Big Tech Companies
Business, Dana Mattioli & Ryan Tracy, Published on 14/06/2021
» House lawmakers proposed a raft of bipartisan legislation aimed at reining in the country's biggest tech companies, including a bill that seeks to make Amazon.com Inc. and other large corporations effectively split in two or shed their private-label products.
European Luxury Is More Chinese Than Ever
Business, Carol Ryan, Published on 25/05/2020
» The world's top luxury brands make much of their European heritage, but their future is looking more Chinese than ever. However this contradiction plays out in the long run, it poses one immediate problem: too many boutiques on their home continent.
Online Grocers Are Getting a Preview of Their Future
Business, Carol Ryan, Published on 30/03/2020
» If the Covid-19 outbreak provides a global test for buying food online, it is one that supermarkets are by and large failing. Yet their e-commerce businesses should be in a different league after the crisis.
Evaluating regional app impact
Business, Rich Ryan, Published on 05/02/2019
» Although Time magazine is best known for anointing a person of the year, it also now declares an app of the year. In 2017, this distinction went to HQ Trivia, which was a reinvention of the game show for the app age.
Self-Directed Learning: the key to workplace innovation
Dr. Ryan V. Guffey, PhD, Rector, Webster University Thailand, Published on 26/11/2018
» As Thailand moves forward in developing 21st century industries, it aims to strengthen vocational training and become a cluster for innovation and start-ups. Similarly, around the globe, the rapid pace of technology and communication has led to greater maturity in business execution, streamlining operational complexity. The accelerated efficiency enables individuals and companies to succeed by making tasks, processes, and problems faced by modern enterprises less challenging, while posing new and often perplexing queries.
A comparative look at higher education: National capacity building in Thailand
Ryan V. Guffey, PhD, Rector, Webster University Thailand, Published on 29/10/2018
» Quality education is the catalyst to advance Thailand’s 4.0 objectives of social-well-being, environmental protection, economic prosperity, and enhanced human values. Despite the commodification of brand name education, we believe a comprehensive and concrete education at home, with educational opportunities across a global network, will do the most to incubate the next class of leading innovators in Thailand. A comparative look at the education systems in India and Germany offer insight into the higher education market and how universities in Thailand could support the goals of Thailand 4.0.
Making education higher: The Webster way
Ryan V. Guffey, Published on 27/08/2018
» With the spotlight on the modernisation of the nation’s economy and the drive to achieve Thailand 4.0, doubts over the country’s ability to achieve such lofty goals have called into question the capacity of the current educational system to support the development of its ambitions. The realisation of Thailand’s wide-spread educational shortcomings has resulted in more parents than ever striving to provide an international standard of education for their children. With the escalating cost of overseas tuition and associated expenditures rising beyond the reach of many families, local institutions have been established to fulfil the needs of this discerning group of parents, many of whom would prefer their children to enjoy their formative years closer to home.