Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

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. But one cannot forget that policy in the Euro area is complex and subject to political constraints.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. Not since the Soviet Union has the US faced a challenger of such economic, political, military and ideological might. Let's deal with the first two.

Globalization 15

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

While the whole world has been adopting a pragmatic consensus on economic policy since the Great Recession, Europe — and Germany in particular — is stubbornly sticking to a policy that has all the downsides of the old classical gold standard. At the time, that did not seem like such a bad thing.

Crisis 11

Crisis Policies Banking Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems. Procter & Gamble provides another example. Lawrence A.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The Federal Reserve’s subsequent (and continuing) support of asset markets has been somewhat more controversial, but still meets widespread approval among economists. By giving us a Great Recession in place of a Great Depression, they made it much harder to assemble a political consensus for truly dramatic change.

Crisis 8

Crisis Real Estate Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

political leadership have a chilling effect on corporate action around environmental and social issues? The cost to build and produce solar and wind power, for example, has dropped 60%–80% since 2010 , making it cheaper than grid electricity in most states. Will the seismic shift in U.S. The short answer is no.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8