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Is An Ethnically Diverse Founding Team Key To Startup Success?

The Horizons Tracker

This represents a growth in global GDP of 6%, which to put that into context is slightly higher than the recent economic forecast from the World Bank of the hit to global GDP from COVID-19. The researchers examined data from all European venture capital deals between 2010 and 2020 that saw more than $1 million raised.

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Does 2010's 4th. Quarter Results Signal Good Times?

Coaching Tip

Gross domestic product (GDP)—a broad measure of all goods and services produced—grew at a 3.2% Final sales—a measure that gives a feeling for underlying demand in the economy by subtracting the change in business inventories from GDP—notched its biggest increase since 1984, growing 7.1% percentage points to GDP.

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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. If you’ve ever watched a large commercial logistics operation at work, you’ll have noticed something: everything is standardized. Improve Your Distribution Network Through Standardisation.

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. International migration is on the rise.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees.

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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.