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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. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India.

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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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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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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. This expansion isn't just domestic.

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The Fallacy of the "China Defense"

Harvard Business Review

And it's just the latest in a series of Chinese commitments, which include the following: July 2010: 5 trillion yuan , or $800 billion, alternative energy plan over 10 years (this is like the part of the U.S. August 2012: 40% increase in solar target (21 gigawatts by 2015). stimulus plan that funded clean tech, but times 10).

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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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China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Harvard Business Review

by 2020, according to the World Bank. China is well on its way to doubling the number of patent applications filed with the State Intellectual Property Office, from 1 million in 2010 to 2 million by 2015. The “input” indeed appears impressive: China’s R&D expenditure increased to 1.6% of GDP in 2012 from 1.1%