Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

There are news reports almost every day about factories downing their shutters in Guangdong, one of China's most populous and prosperous provinces. 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

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million. trillion to $6.2

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Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

For the government, the annual value of under-reported taxes in the United States is $400 billion to $600 billion. According to the national taxpayer advocate’s estimates, 52% of this gap is because of under-reporting by self-employed taxpayers. If even half of this under-reporting is directly enabled by a cash economy, the U.S.

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Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

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. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. You may not think of yourself as an immigrant.

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Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Foshan is China's seventh-largest city in terms of GDP. The fact is that medium-sized cities — many of them unknown outside their own countries — are going to be where the next wave of growth is coming from, as discussed in the McKinsey Global Institute report on cities and the rise of the consuming class (pdf).

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GDP McKinsey Real Estate Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% Our analysis suggests that, so far, the results have been mixed. in 2000 to 2.0% respectively.

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Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The UK tech sector has been among the groups most vigorously opposed to exiting. The UK is also disproportionately influential in Europe’s digital industry.

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Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. The UK Treasury’s April 2016 report about the economic pain caused by Brexit, 200 pages long and generally well executed, is an example: It was dismissed as “gobbledygook.” distributors, retailers, and so on.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Both parties have supported free-trade deals because of the net positive GDP gains, overlooking the blue-collar workers who lost work as jobs left for Mexico or Vietnam. In 2010, while on a book tour for Reshaping the Work-Family Debate , I gave a talk about all of this at the Harvard Kennedy School. Who’s stupid?

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