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Book Review: Wind, J., (2025), Creativity in the Age of AI, De Gruyter

Over 70 years ago, Peter Drucker wrote: “Business has only two functions: marketing and innovation. These produce newness. All other functions are costs”. This is exactly what the present book addresses. While the major focus of the book is on creativity (i.e., innovation), supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is written by Dr. Jerry Wind [1] , one of the world’s leading marketing experts (The Lauder Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, at Wharton School). While many

Nov 13, 20258 min read

Book Review: Clegg, N., (2025), How to Save the Internet, Bodley Head/Penguin

Until January 2025, the author, Nick Clegg, was a senior officer at Meta for seven years. Before that, he was Deputy Prime Minister in the UK and Chairman of the UK’s Liberal Party. Mr. Clegg focuses on generative AI. As generative AI is seen to reshape everything from communication to geopolitics, the book raises a major dilemma: Will open , democratic values shape the future, or will closed authoritarian models win? The global internet, traditionally open, may be at risk o

Oct 20, 20255 min read

Book Review: Lee, K.-F., (2018), AI Superpowers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This book focuses on China versus the US in the race to take the lead in AI. Why do the Chinese seem to be doing so well? And which particular strengths might Silicon Valley have to play on? Few, if anyone, seem to be as well qualified to address these issues as author Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. As of present, he is Chairman/CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a leading technology-focused investment firm focused on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech firms. Before this, Dr. Le

Oct 14, 20257 min read

Book Review: Guenther, G., (2024), The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It, Oxford University Press

This book is about how various stakeholder groups, primarily in the US, fight the efforts to limit or even abandon the burning of fossil fuels. While there is clearly an increase in our general understanding of the CO 2 emission problem, and global warming and climate changes stemming from such emissions, there still seems to be relatively little focus on this fundamental issue. For instance, according to researchers at Yale University, around 69% of Americans never discuss

Oct 14, 20255 min read

Peter Lorange was the owner of S. Ugelstads Rederi, an Oslo-based ship owning company firm, founded in 1929, from 1988 to 2006. There he started an investment company (S. Ugelstad Invest). The ownership of this firm was transferred to his two children, Anne-Sophie and Per Frithjof, in 2021. Today it operates a diversified portfolio focused on five different business areas (stocks and bonds; real estate; shipping; ventures; education) with more than 40 activities.

For 15 years, from 1993 to 2008, Professor Lorange was President of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), the leading executive education establishment based in Lausanne, Switzerland. He then founded the Lorange Institute, another business school, located in Horgen outside Zurich, which he sold to CEIBS, a leading Shanghai, China-based business school.