Coaching Tip

AUGUST 4, 2011

The belief that the economy drives the stock market is common knowledge; it's Investing 101; the idea gets pounded into investors' heads, over and over again, by various pundits, daily. But please allow us to suggest this: Belief that the GDP and other economic measures drive stock market trends is completely and utterly false.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. The short answer we find from our research is: No. For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

You are an executive responsible for unearthing the next new market opportunity for your company and — like your competitors — you're looking at maps of rapidly-growing economies in the emerging world. Foshan is China's seventh-largest city in terms of GDP. With a mystified stare, perhaps? billion in 1990 to 4.2

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GDP McKinsey Real Estate Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

For the first time, the US does not rank among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of overall prosperity. If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. Take, for example, citizens' perceptions of job markets. Building on Robert F.

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Social Capital GDP Human Capital Education 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

As readers of this blog already know, markets are far less integrated internationally than popular views of globalization presume. Their conclusions are corroborated not just by empirical experience but by experimental research on asset markets by Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith , among others. in 2010 with further increases forecast.

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Globalization GDP Crisis Finance 11

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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