Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world. Translators were employed for cross-border communications.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

For example, many, if not most, of the Chinese products we buy every day are produced by German-made machinery, and the companies that make them are thriving. by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. Germany’s style of innovation explains its manufacturing prowess.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

It’s been awhile since I heard a similar response, as companies are now expanding aggressively into ASEAN (Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and especially Indonesia). Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It helped spark new levels of interest in Africa by the international business community, and companies in a range of industries—from consumer goods to financial services to technology—have since expanded their African footprints. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010.

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Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

They know how to contemplate 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year programs and achieve year-on-year GDP growth that averages no less than 8 percent. Specifically, we estimate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China will spend $41.5 We believe soaring consumer demand in China offers Western companies unprecedented new opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. DOSTI soccer balls, a company founded by two Afghan women, is one such Bpeace-backed firm. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

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GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

From 1979 to 2015, Chinese GDP per capita increased from 2.7% GDP per capita to 23.6%. We sampled the 10 most popular songs every year under the Chinese National Radio Billboard from 1970 to 2010. China has experienced rapid changes over the past five decades. While the economic change is undeniable, what about cultural change?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

Few companies are really good at it, and there can be big penalties for being wrong. In fact, a survey of more than 500 senior executives showed that only 1% of companies hit their financial forecast over three years, and only one out of five are within 5%. Overall, companies were off by 13%, which impacted shareholder value by 6%.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. More large companies means the gains are distributed more broadly than would be the case with just a few—but that domestic competition can be ferocious.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. pace in the first quarter of 2010. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Some are shutting down because the companies that own them are going bankrupt, while other corporations are moving inland. The province's exports growth rate, which was 26% in 2010, fell to 22% in the first nine months of 2011, and it has continued to decline ever since.

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GDP Pharmaceuticals Long-term Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

We calculate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China and India will have consumed goods and services worth a total of $64 trillion. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million. Chinese consumers will spend $41.5 trillion over this period, with annual expenditures rising from $2.0

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Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

GDP grew by 1.9% Thanks to the extension of private agreements to all workers and companies, labor unions are able to exert a much wider influence than their narrow membership would allow. It also allows companies with 20 to 50 employees to negotiate with an elected representative even if not explicitly mandated by the unions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, the U.N. trillion in bribes wiped out more than 5% of global GDP. Using the New Sim City, Six Urban Planners Build the Perfect City (Sort of) (Fast Company). estimates, some $1.5 Wealth Distribution in America in One Mind-Blowing Video (Politizane). The First Org Chart (McKinsey Quarterly).

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Due Diligence GDP McKinsey Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

companies will be at a disadvantage if we tax carbon or invest in clean energy because "China's not doing anything.". 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

According to another study , more than 40% of Fortune 500 companies operating in 2010 were founded by immigrants or their children — including some of the most well-known brands, from Apple and IBM to Disney and McDonalds. The companies noted in this study had combined revenues of $4.2 Unleash Your Passion.

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Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The company is now one of the largest mobile cash-transaction companies in the world — roughly 20% of the country's GDP passes through it. So it's no surprise that companies in the region are finding innovative ways to reach consumers. Other e-commerce companies are overcoming obstacles in innovative ways as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. Despite decades of globalization, these companies remain predominantly U.S.

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Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

As for its official debt to the EU, the ECB, and the IMF, it consisted largely of payments that were made to pass through to EU financial institutions, between 2010 and 2012, so that the Eurozone banks and insurance companies would not be imperiled. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

trillion to the GDP, or about one-fifth of the nation's total gross domestic product. Spurring Job Creation: The policies being enacted today need to: • Encourage global trade: Smart trade policy that eliminates trade barriers at home and abroad and facilitates international commerce will help American companies grow and be more competitive.

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Retail Policies Supply Chain Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This time around (looking at 2010 data), the emerging markets account for over 23% of global GDP as opposed to 11% in 1975 (at current, not purchasing power parity, prices, which give them an even greater share). What should countries and companies do if we are right and the challenge this time around is a serious one?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. states could add more than 10%, and the nation’s 50 largest cities could add between 6% and 13% of GDP. trillion GDP opportunity would require the creation of 6.4 Some companies are leading in this regard too.

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GDP Policies McKinsey Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These ranges were wide due to the relative size of the different players in the supply chain (for example, a company that has higher revenues will realize greater benefits than a smaller firm). The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

You are an executive responsible for unearthing the next new market opportunity for your company and — like your competitors — you're looking at maps of rapidly-growing economies in the emerging world. Foshan is China's seventh-largest city in terms of GDP. How would you react to the names Surat, Foshan, and Porto Alegre?

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GDP McKinsey Real Estate Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The corporate community is also concerned that our current system inhibits competitiveness, holding American companies back. companies are not being held back by the corporate tax code. companies are taxed at higher rates on more of their income. multinational firms. corporate tax code. At a glance, it looks like U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

During the past decade, the United States was the world’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment, with nearly $2 trillion invested in a range of sectors, companies, and workers across the country. According to our analysis , trade accounted for only 20% of net manufacturing job losses in the United States between 2000 and 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% From 2010-2015, the share of China-origin patents among all patents granted by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) was only 2.2%. Other than in a few sectors such as defense, India has no policies designed to aid domestic over foreign companies.

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Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% 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. Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China. in the case of, say, Japan.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

On August 5, 2010, a mine collapsed in Chile’s Atacama Desert, trapping 33 miners more than 2,000 feet underground. An estimated $12 trillion a year , approximately 16% of global GDP , is spent on capital projects globally. Any meaningful improvement in this sector sends enormous value cascading throughout the global economy.

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Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes. A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

GDP, outcomes are worse than in other developed countries, and an attempt to fix the system through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) now sits in the hands of the U.S. A 2010 HHS Study said we were killing 15,000 Medicare patients per month with medical errors. There are few more personal, passionate, and political topics than health care.

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Health Care Incentives Quality Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. The leading companies in online search, social media, and e-commerce are all based in one or the other of these two regions. Winner-take-all economics favored the companies in the U.S. Insight Center.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

And how should Chinese companies and foreign companies doing business in China respond? With the new plan, the composition of the economy is likely to change markedly in the coming years, and companies need to divine, adapt to, and exploit these shifts. What is the significance of the plan?

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Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

According to a 2010 study by Goldman Sachs , "If Japan could close its gender employment gap.Japan's workforce could expand by 8.2 million and the level of Japan's GDP could increase by as much as 15 percent.". If ever a country needed a breakthrough idea for productivity, it's now. 31%) and Germany (35%).

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Flextime Survey Education GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s true of GDP. Greenspan asked me to check that, and the actual line from the article was pretty close: “Asked in 2010 about those who warned that housing prices would crash, he responded, ‘Right. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. It didn’t happen.

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