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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. But for women to succeed as entrepreneurs or as managers, other tools are useful, if not essential.

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Adopt an Immigrant Mindset to Advance Your Career

Harvard Business Review

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. The immigrant mentality has proven time and again to accelerate careers and build enterprise. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. born co-inventors.

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Are CEOs Really India’s Leading Export?

Harvard Business Review

Satya Nadella’s appointment as Microsoft’s CEO was greeted with headlines such as “ Why Microsoft and Everyone Else Loves Indian CEOs ,” echoing Time’s 2011 lead heralding “ India’s Leading Export: CEOs.” Prahalad’s assertion that “Growing up in India is an extraordinary preparation for management” was wrong? Not necessarily.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it.