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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

billion impressions on Twitter and Instagram and was the top trending topic in the U.S. 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. during the assembly.

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

Harvard Business Review

During the 2000s, however, a worrisome trend appeared. economy, these trends are alarming. 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.

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Can the "College Premium" Withstand Hyperspecialization?

Harvard Business Review

Two factors triggered my unease: the trends described by my co-authors and I in our recent HBR article and new work by Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence. After serving as a dean at Harvard and Stanford, he was chair of the World Bank-sponsored Commission on Growth and Development from 2006 to 2010. to emerging economies.