Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

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. The costs of inaction are rising, which brings me to. stimulus plan that funded clean tech, but times 10). One of Sen.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

So in 2010, I started this foundation and coined the "circular economy" term to help frame the concept. The whole circular concept sounds daunting — there's quite a bit involved with an approach like that: reverse logistics, cost incursions, consumer awareness. The marketing model changes. It's a huge challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

According to McKinsey, youth unemployment in Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, is around 50%. The sector needs modernization, and must deploy computer-aided-design tools to enhance quality and automate production for scale to win markets. As of 2010, only 3% of Africa’s population attended post-secondary education (PDF).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

based multinationals are shifting jobs to lower-cost labor in foreign subsidiaries, the trends in employment warrant special attention. businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

China's consumer goods market expanded rapidly over the past two decades primarily because of the growing number of first-time buyers, who were eager to buy goods and services that were previously unavailable or unaffordable. That's a concern for many companies, as a recent McKinsey survey highlights.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. Our numbers seem to be moving that way: our annual earnings (EBIT on a normalized basis) increased from 1% of sales in 2007 to 9% in 2010 in our original carpet business. 1] McKinsey & Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

Ignoring the very real costs of trade and globalization is not only counterproductive but indefensible. According to our analysis , trade accounted for only 20% of net manufacturing job losses in the United States between 2000 and 2010. That doesn’t mean we should keep doing the same old things.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. billion as compared to $4.4

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

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