MIT Graduate Enjoys Boom, Survives Bust in Dubai

April 21 2010, 9:11 PM  by Tim Chambers

Keith Yost, staff columnist for The Tech, MIT's campus rag, recently finished a four-part series about his experience as a new college hire by the Boston Consulting Group. His first (and only) BCG consulting assignment was in Dubai.

Part 1: The city of tomorrow. "...There are several words that can be used to describe Dubai. It is magnificent, mundane, interesting, diverse, conflicted, and hot. But if I were limited to only one, it was disturbing."

Part 2: Welcome to your caste. "...Dubai is a dictatorship, perhaps benevolent, but still a dictatorship."

Part 3: The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell.  "...As hard as it was to decide whether or not to stay at my job, it was easy to pass up the hush money."

Part 4: Dispatches from the collapse. "...I laugh whenever I read one of Thomas Friedman’s 'Gosh Golly, Globalism!' theses, but his turn of phrase, 'The World is Flat' sounds to me like a particularly apt summary of Dubai’s downfall."

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  • Apr 21 2010, 9:36 PM
    Tim Chambers responded:
    See Rupert Bumfrey's comments in support of Yost on his blog.