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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.”

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Critical contractors.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business Review

The market panicked. The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. This is most apparent in the credit markets, where revenues have shrunk by more than 40% from pre-crisis peaks. Defaults on subprime mortgage loans mounted. There was a run on British bank Northern Rock. Over the next year, many banks fell.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

India Business Council found that its large company members were prepared to invest $40 billion into India by 2017. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington last September, the U.S.-India

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How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India launched Aadhaar in 2009 with the then-improbable goal of giving every Indian a single digital identity in the form of a biometric authenticated 12-digit number. The result?

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We're Running Out of Resources, and It's Going to Be OK

Harvard Business Review

By 2017, " industry revenue is forecast to grow to $1.5 Growth will benefit operations that design for durability , employ repair technicians, warehouse replacement parts, create service documentation , and build software to facilitate them all. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0