Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 29, 2017
Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees. The Japanese employees in the Tokyo headquarters communicated in Japanese, the Americans in the U.S. Translators were employed for cross-border communications.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 30, 2012
If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. In 2006 when the first Prosperity Index was published, this was a surprising exercise. Doing so, however, produces insights on vital questions the answers to which are not yet (and may never be) reflected in GDP.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2011
This system has reorganized and increased public funding by a full percentage point of GDP in order to provide universal health insurance, including the 50 million Mexicans, most of them poor, who had been excluded from formal social insurance schemes. Seguro Popular has elicited an enthusiastic response from the population.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. And Big Business did not even make those bets. That's before the Great Recession.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 7, 2014
Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. It’s true of GDP. Greenspan asked me to check that, and the actual line from the article was pretty close: “Asked in 2010 about those who warned that housing prices would crash, he responded, ‘Right.
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