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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. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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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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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout. 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

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. 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

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.