Tag: Book review
The best books for the Christmas season
Advent Season The dark season is particularly suitable for a good book. When Advent begins, it is often not only contemplative, but just as hectic. In the stressful weeks leading…
Nouriel Roubini sees traps everywhere and chaos everywhere
Various threats A new world order, climate crisis, the debt crisis or crumbling democracies: Nouriel Roubini sees ten threats coming our way. Among the many iterations in Nouriel Roubini’s new…
Rise and downsides of the YouTube success machine
san francisco The video portal YouTube has changed the way moving images are perceived globally. The platform represents the promise that anyone can reach an audience of billions. The children’s…
Why there is no end to capitalism
“The end of capitalism”, the title of Ulrike Herrmann’s new book, has already been predicted by many. A certain Karl Marx, for example, who derived this prognosis from his theory…
CVs in the economic turning point of 1923
Dusseldorf Hugo Stinnes? Haven’t heard that name for a long time. Rudolph Havenstein? Who was that? And Kurt Tucholsky? Yes, the great writer. But was he really a banker for…
How monopolies destroy our prosperity
The new episode of Handelsblatt Disrupt is a very special one: Handelsblatt Editor-in-Chief Sebastian Matthes talks to Senior Editor Hans-Jürgen Jakobs about his new book “Das Monopol im 21. Jahrhundert”.…
Readers’ Prize winner Katja Diehl and the compulsion to have a car
Katja Diehl after the award ceremony “I want to show people that the I is not as important as the we,” says the author. Frankfurt The readers of the Handelsblatt…
Readers’ Prize winner Katja Diehl and the compulsion to have a car
Katja Diehl after the award ceremony “I want to show people that the I is not as important as the we,” says the author. Frankfurt The readers of the Handelsblatt…
McKinsey and Co. with “questionable practices”: The black book of the consulting firms
keyhole Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsyth look behind the scenes at consultancies like McKinsey and unearth some things. Dusseldorf The authors already make it clear with the title in which…
Business book award winner Qiufan Chen in an interview.
Chen at the presentation of the German Business Book Prize “We must actively ensure that it is not the negative side of this technology that comes to light,” said the…
Business book award winner Qiufan Chen in an interview.
Chen at the presentation of the German Business Book Prize “We must actively ensure that it is not the negative side of this technology that comes to light,” said the…
The business book of the year shows what our future looks like
Co-award winner Qiufan Chen (on screen), jury president Hans-Jürgen Jakobs The Chinese author was live from Switzerland on Friday evening. (Photo: Markus Kirchgessner for Handelsblatt) Frankfurt Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan…
With a “revolution in minds” against the loss of prosperity
For a long time, election campaigns in Germany were associated with parties wanting to do something about unemployment in Germany. Now the debate is different. “The Great Unemployment” is the…
How nature can help us out of our crises
Munich The world is so much on the brink that on many days one does not know which crisis to assess first. Catastrophe as the “new normal”. Such a situation…
The moral thing
Dusseldorf Aren’t all people “good people”? At least that’s what most people would probably say. The fact that at this point there is a big gap between self-perception and the…
Invitation to actively help shape the economy
Dusseldorf There is probably no young person today who is not interested in climate protection. It is the defining issue of our time. So if you want to get young…
Will the currency survive the crisis?
Frankfurt More than 30 authors, some of them prominent, more than 500 pages, a wide range of topics from technical questions of cash processing to bitcoins and stablecoins: The Bundesbank…
How hydrogen makes the energy transition possible in the first place
Hydrogen train on a test drive In addition to its use in industry, hydrogen can also play a major role in the traffic revolution. It can be used as fuel…
Katja Diehl on a possible departure from the car
Traffic in Berlin According to the Federal Ministry of Transport, there are around 830,000 kilometers of roads in Germany, but only 38,600 kilometers of rails. (Photo: imago images/photothek) Dusseldorf With…
These management books are worth reading in the English original
Dusseldorf, Berlin There are book titles that are difficult to translate. Clayton Christensen and his “Innovator’s Dilemma”, for example. The standard work by the well-known Harvard business professor who died…