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Workplace Inclusion With Anand Giridharadas

CO2

Anand’s first book, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011), about returning to the India his parents left is a worthwhile read, too. The Star Tribune reviewer called it “[a] beautifully written, intelligent look at the cultural history and changes of India.

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Workplace Inclusion With Anand Giridharadas

CO2

Anand’s first book, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011), about returning to the India his parents left is a worthwhile read, too. The Star Tribune reviewer called it “[a] beautifully written, intelligent look at the cultural history and changes of India.

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Workplace Inclusion

CO2

Anand’s first book, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011), about returning to the India his parents left is a worthwhile read, too. The Star Tribune reviewer called it “[a] beautifully written, intelligent look at the cultural history and changes of India.

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The Fortune Global 500 Isn’t All That Global

Harvard Business Review

And Bain & Company’s analysis of the performance of nearly 100 Western firms with listed subsidiaries in emerging markets found that these companies increased their profits there by an average of 15 percent a year between 2005 and 2010—compared to 23 percent a year for comparable local companies.

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The Fortune Global 500 Isn’t All That Global

Harvard Business Review

And Bain & Company’s analysis of the performance of nearly 100 Western firms with listed subsidiaries in emerging markets found that these companies increased their profits there by an average of 15 percent a year between 2005 and 2010—compared to 23 percent a year for comparable local companies.

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The Hidden Costs of Cash

Harvard Business Review

India, where about 60% of adults are unbanked according to McKinsey, is also a cash-heavy economy for transactions and high in its use of gold as a store of value. However, this proportion is not growing; it has remained relatively static over the period 2005-2011, even as Mexico’s economy has grown. How can this be?

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.