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

Harvard Business Review

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. ” • “Reserve Bank permission?

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. The answer to those questions is threefold: Central Bank choices. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S.,

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

The SEC’s new disclosure requirement implements a section of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that seeks to expose extreme pay gaps within corporations and to permit cross-company comparisons of CEO-worker pay inequality. When ranked by the highest ARG compensation, in 2015 average total ARG compensation of the 500 highest paid was $32.6

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Carlos Ghosn, Nissan, and the Need for Stronger Corporate Governance in Japan

Harvard Business Review

As one accountant based in Japan during 2010, explained , “there was a big rush of inquiries about schemes that might be used either to split out salaries or defer part of it.” As a result, when making close calls on the company’s financial reports, that auditor may be too deferential to Nissan management.

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. A 2015 survey by Wayra , a startup incubator, last year found that over a fifth of startup talent in the UK came from other EU countries. billion as compared to $4.4 Decision-Making Will Be Held Hostage to Uncertainty. Digital Talent Will Be in Shorter Supply.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” Transparency and governance issues abound. Investing in innovation capacity.

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