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Recessions Push People to Buy Cheap Things, Which Just Makes Everything Worse

Harvard Business Review

The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates. the availability of lower quality, inexpensive goods produced in developing countries has increased over time.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Would You Rather Have Brazil’s Economic Problems or America’s?

Harvard Business Review

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. as befits an already very developed, very rich economy. based companies at the forefront of most interesting digital developments. births per woman in 1980 to 1.8

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

And the fact that these markets are "emerging" presents more limitations, including the harsh reality of low spending power: GDP per capita in India is $3,900 and in Indonesia is $5,000 (compared to the US at $49,800). A hybrid approach has to be developed — one that takes good elements from the U.S. Once a copycat succeeds, U.S.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

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Creating a Culture of Unconditional Love

Harvard Business Review

But we all know what happened in 2001. It was the largest sovereign debt default in world history, and GDP fell by some 30% coupled with a 300% currency devaluation. It also creates the conditions for neurogenesis, allowing people to learn and develop new healthy habits and competencies. Building a Feedback-Rich Culture.