Vol 4 Issue 10 Oct 2012

This month’s cover story in about one of Qatar’s more contentious investments, The Shard, a skyscraper that sits on the bank of the river Thames in central London. We take a look at the differing sentiments it has generated from Londoners and Qatar’s role in the project.

In this issue we also look at the hegemony American management ideology has enjoyed over business practices around the world, we ask if it will ever be challenged and what other cultures have to offer in way of management approaches. We also interviewed the CEO and one of the founders of Just Falafel, an Arab brand that is pushing an aggressive franchising model about their path to success. TheEDGE also spoke with country manager for BroCade a company that manages one third of all Internet traffic in the world, about the virtualisation of businesses.