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New Report: We're Not As Connected As We Think

Harvard Business Review

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. Countries' levels of global connectedness are impacted both by their domestic and their foreign policies.

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What's Next For Guangdong?

Harvard Business Review

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. That's why Guangdong's population of migrant workers declined by 3% every year between 2005 and 2010.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes. It never happened.