Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite. Amid worsening food and foreign exchange shortages, Mugabe ramped up populist policies to please his supporters.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Fifteen European countries have been losing momentum since 2008 in terms of their state of digital evolution – this is what we mean by a digital recession – with the Netherlands coming in dead last in our momentum rankings. European countries occupy the nine bottom spots in our list of 50. How has Europe dealt with the situation?

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program. .” The winners. .”

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Until the summer of 2008, container ports on both the west and east coasts of North America were nearing capacity as imports and exports soared. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. ’ Remember that many younger investors grew up in the 2008 recession and perhaps never trusted the stock market. index funds). on half a billion dollars invested on the platform to date.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. The financial crisis of 2008 is often attributed to deregulation and unfettered capitalism. in 2015, while foreign direct investment from the United States fell from 2.9% of GDP in 2007 to 3.3%

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. In 2008 Bill Gates testified before Congress to advocate for more H-1B visas to help compensate for “a deficit of Americans with computer science degrees.”

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8