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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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Does Work Make You Happy? Evidence from the World Happiness Report

Harvard Business Review

We draw largely upon the Gallup World Poll , which has been surveying people in over 150 countries around the world since 2006. The available categories cover many kinds of jobs, including being a business owner, office worker, or manager, and working in farming, construction, mining, or transport. GDP is masking deeper issues.

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

Lazear went on to describe how economists, with the University of Chicago's Gary Becker leading the way , had been running roughshod over the other social sciences — using economic tools to study crime, the family, accounting, corporate management, and countless other not strictly economic topics.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP. In March 2006, Spanish unemployment was 8.1 In Ireland a National Asset Management Agency was formed to cleanse private banks' balance sheets and disburse the bad loans over a longer period.

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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. Why Russia is still attractive. How to create growth in a stagnating market.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

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. That's before the Great Recession. The economic value of much innovation accrued to China instead.

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When Work Is Challenging, Economies Thrive

Harvard Business Review

But Edmund Phelps, the Columbia University economist who won a Nobel in 2006 " for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy ," has been doing his best to change that. It feels like the focus at the time was very much on managing something that was there. There''s nothing about innovation there.