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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

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. shares of the global operations of U.S.-based competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

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Can the "College Premium" Withstand Hyperspecialization?

Harvard Business Review

For example, TopCoder develops software for its corporate clients, a task traditionally assigned to a team of engineers, by dividing the work into small modules and farming those out to its global community, which has more than 300,000 members. We predict that hyperspecialization, a niche phenomenon today, will over time become mainstream.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. obscures the tectonic economic shift in global retail. Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc. That's right.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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80% of Companies Don’t Know If Their Products Contain Conflict Minerals

Harvard Business Review

But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. Eligible companies had more than three years to investigate their supply chains; the first disclosure reports were due in May 2014. We wanted to find out.