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M.A. Kevin Capuder Chair of Business Administration Department Many writers have asserted that capitalism must have a death wish. Most commonly, the argument put forward has to do with globalwarming and future environmental disaster. The self-interested eliteplayers in capitalism can’t seem to view self-interest beyond their own generation. You see, individuals can be rational and […]

Mark Tomass, Ph.D. MBA Faculty, University of New York in Prague What Is a Speculative Attack? A speculative attack on a country’s currency generally takes place when speculators believe that the currency is overvalued given the fundamentals of that country’s economy. Accordingly, because they expect the value of that currency to depreciate in the future, […]

Sotiris Karagiannis, BSc, MEd, MBA Managing Partner, Senior Trainer and Business Consultan at MDI South East Europe Professor of Organizational Behavior & Leadership at UNYP In my many years as a business consultant, I have come across a great challenge many organizations face, especially during times of high ambiguity in the marketplace. For most of […]

Todd Nesbitt Chair of Communication and Mass Media I finally went to see Petr yesterday. I’ve been meaning to for ages, but since the main UNYP building moved to the new address I find it hard to get down to see him, as his workplace is no longer on my route to the office. Excuses, […]

Jana Sladkova, PhD Professor of Psychology University of New York in Prague Hello, I am excited to be teaching at UNYP for the first time this semester. I am offering classes about Psychology of Diversity, Psychology of Immigration, and Research Methods for Social Scientists. And I am coming back this summer to teach an interdisciplinary […]

Óscar Hidalgo-Redondo, MPhil Chair of International and Economic Relations We are currently commemorating the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the Velvet Revolution. We are doing this precisely at a moment in which in many European countries their citizens are questioning their political institutions. It is evident that the impact of the economic crisis in […]

David Starr-Glass MBA, M.Sc., M.Ed. Mentor, International Programs (Prague), State University of New York – Empire State College One of the confusing things that many UNYP students encounter is that while they work and study for four years with UNYP their degree is awarded by Empire State College. Empire State College (ESC) is part of […]

Author: Professor Max Hilaire, PH.D. Position: Lecturer, Empire State College, State University of New York, USA and Associate Professor and Chairperson, Morgan State University, USA. The world faces some unprecedented crises that no one state can solve unilaterally and no global institutions exist to address them adequately. The world faces some unprecedented crises that no […]

Author: William B. Cohn, J.D.  Position: Business Administration Faculty There was much head-scratching at the 2014 Forum 2000 Conference on “Democracy and its Discontents,” held in the Czech Republic October 12-15, 2014. Panelists bemoaned resurgent authoritarianism, decline of civil liberties/human rights, loss of respect for law, and foolish foreign policy. How could this be when […]

Author: Dr. Tess Slavíčková Position: Communication and Mass Media Faculty I am fairly sure that all of us at UNYP consider ourselves learners of at least one foreign language. In that case we are no doubt all familiar with the problem of not just learning new words, but learning how to use them properly. I […]