{"id":1940,"date":"2014-10-01T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.hult.edu\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:45:34","slug":"toward-new-global-russia-leaving-the-brics-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/toward-new-global-russia-leaving-the-brics-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward a New Global Russia: Leaving the BRICS Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest piece (with Professor Olaf Groth, Terence Tse, and Mark Esposito)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Toward a New Global Russia&#8221; asserts that grouping Russia into the BRICs was a mistake. \u00a0The country is far adrift of the expectations it set in the early 2000s. \u00a0Its leadership now has to make important strategic choices that could put the nation on discretely different paths: \u00a0Will the country become the Saudi Arabia of Europe, albeit a much more acquisitive one, speculating on its oil and gas riches to finance expansion of contiguous landmass? \u00a0Or will it turn a corner toward reinvesting in much greater emphasis on strings of distributed geo-economic and science &amp; technology assets, building on historical clusters of excellence? \u00a0In a world in which its reputation, relationship equity, natural and financial resources are increasingly pegged and finite, the time to decide is now.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on the World Financial Review \u201c<a title=\"Toward a New Global Russia: Leaving the BRICS Behind\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfinancialreview.com\/?p=2881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toward a New Global Russia: Leaving the BRICS behind<\/a>\u201d. Written by\u00a0<a title=\"Professor Olaf Groth\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/en\/about-hult\/our-faculty#olaf-groth\">Olaf Groth<\/a>,\u00a0Professor of Management, Strategy, Innovation &amp; Economics, \u00a0and Adjunct Professsors Mark Esposito and Terence Tse, at Hult International Business School<\/p>\n<p>Grow your leadership capabilities with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/en\/programs\/mba\/\">MBA in international business<\/a> at Hult. To learn more, take a look at our blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/international-masters-program-internsme\/\">Masters of International Business: Connect locally, build internationally<\/a>, or give your career a boost with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/en\/programs\/masters\/international-business\/\">Masters in International Business<\/a>. 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