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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. How to create growth in a stagnating market. Why Russia is still attractive.

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

On the really big questions — how to run the economy, for example — the mainstream view described by Lazear has continued to dominate. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers in 2006. Meaning that you can never get truly scientific answers out of GDP or unemployment numbers. And then, well, things didn't go so well.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) It took some time to gain momentum and learn how to attract local talent.”

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Lots of people blamed Greenspan for some or all of this, and the man himself famously allowed, in a Congressional hearing in October 2008, that he had “found a flaw” in his model of how the world works.