????最近，在一個(gè)大型商業(yè)會(huì)議上（按規(guī)定我不能具名引用與會(huì)者的言論），我很驚訝地聽(tīng)到一位著名的首席執(zhí)行官不經(jīng)意間說(shuō)到：“紐約仍然是世界的中心”。這位首席執(zhí)行官并不是美國(guó)人（他來(lái)自英國(guó)），而且每次我見(jiàn)到他時(shí)，他要么準(zhǔn)備去中國(guó)，要么剛從中國(guó)回來(lái)，所以當(dāng)聽(tīng)到他說(shuō)紐約市世界的中心之后，我就在想，他說(shuō)得是否有道理呢？

????幾天后，我接到了密歇根大學(xué)羅斯商學(xué)院（Ross School of Business）教授、知名領(lǐng)導(dǎo)力學(xué)者諾爾?迪奇的電話，他說(shuō)將會(huì)帶領(lǐng)15位全球MBA課程項(xiàng)目的學(xué)生到紐約市參訪兩天。這些學(xué)生大多是來(lái)自海外，大多數(shù)是亞洲人?！爱?dāng)我問(wèn)他們有多少人曾經(jīng)去過(guò)紐約時(shí)，只有兩三個(gè)人舉手，”他說(shuō)。“我說(shuō)‘什么？如果你連全球金融中心都沒(méi)去過(guò)，怎么能理解商業(yè)世界？那我們就去紐約看看！’”

????這些人說(shuō)得是否有道理呢？一般人當(dāng)然認(rèn)為，全球經(jīng)濟(jì)、知識(shí)、社交和文化的中心已經(jīng)不可避免地向東方轉(zhuǎn)移，而老邁的紐約卻在這個(gè)過(guò)程中逐漸落伍。不過(guò)，依然有充分的證據(jù)證明，紐約的中心地位無(wú)可撼動(dòng)，原因如下：

????- 紐約可以說(shuō)依然是全球頂級(jí)的金融中心。在安然（Enron）和世通公司（WorldCom）爆出丑聞之后，薩班斯-奧克斯利法案（Sarbanes-Oxley）和其他一系列嚴(yán)厲的監(jiān)管措施相繼出臺(tái)，令許多公司轉(zhuǎn)投其他資本市場(chǎng)，特別是倫敦。但是如今，倫敦和歐盟也開(kāi)始針對(duì)上市公司施行大量的監(jiān)管法規(guī)，其中還包括限制銀行家分紅的提案，結(jié)果讓紐約再次充滿吸引力。

????- 毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)，紐約還是全球的媒體中心。全球十大傳媒公司中的五家都位于紐約，分別是哥倫比亞廣播公司（CBS）、新聞集團(tuán)（News Corp）、時(shí)代華納（Time Warner）、21世紀(jì)?？怂梗?1st Century Fox）以及維亞康姆集團(tuán)（Viacom）。除紐約外，全球沒(méi)有一座城市擁有超過(guò)一家“全球十大”傳媒公司。

????當(dāng)一座城市中云集了全球資本和媒體產(chǎn)業(yè)的總部時(shí)，或許它就真的是全球的中心。因此，恭喜紐約！自二戰(zhàn)結(jié)束后的68年來(lái)，它一直頭頂著“全球中心”的桂冠。但問(wèn)題是，這頂桂冠還能保持多久？我對(duì)此沒(méi)有把握。前面提到的那位著名的首席執(zhí)行官將紐約稱為全球中心的時(shí)候，他正身處新加坡。全球經(jīng)濟(jì)中心東移的趨勢(shì)雖充滿波折，但卻不會(huì)停止。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：唐昕昕

????At a big business conference recently -- where the rules forbade my quoting participants by name -- I was surprised to hear a famous CEO refer in passing to "New York City, which is still the center of the world." The CEO isn't American (he's English), and whenever I see him he's always just coming from or going to China. And he thinks New York is the center of the world. I wondered, Could he be right?

????A few days later I got a call from Noel Tichy, the well-known leadership expert and professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, to say he was bringing 15 global MBA students -- all of them from outside the U.S., most of them Asian -- to the city for two days. "I asked how many of them had been to New York, and only two or three of them raised their hands," he explained. "I said, 'Come on. How can you understand global business if you've never been to the world's financial center? We're going!'"

????So are these guys right? The conventional view is of course that the global centers of gravity -- economic, intellectual, social, cultural -- are shifting unstoppably east, and little old New York is receding to the middle of the pack. Yet a case can still be made for New York's primacy, as follows:

????-It is arguably still the preeminent financial center. Its claim was in danger after the scandals of the Enron/WorldCom era prompted Sarbanes-Oxley and other heavy-handed regulations, which drove many companies to capital markets elsewhere, especially London. But now London and the EU have heaped mountains of regulation onto firms, including proposed limits on bankers' bonuses, and New York looks a lot more alluring once again.

????-It is unquestionably the global media capital. Of the world's 10 biggest media companies, five -- CBS (CBS), News Corp. (NWSA), Time Warner (TWX), 21st Century Fox (FOX), and Viacom (VIA) -- are based in New York. No other city has more than one.

????Money and media -- when a city is world headquarters for those two sectors of today's economy, maybe it really is the center of the world. So all hail New York! It has held the title for, let's say, 68 years (since the end of World War II). But for how much longer? Five years? I wouldn't bet on it. The famous CEO who called New York the center of the world made his remark in Singapore. That eastward trend may surge and pause, but it isn't stopping.