Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Globalization marches on. But the pace isn’t all that fast, and the overall level of global connectedness still hasn’t gotten back to its all-time peak of 2007. Ghemawat, a frequent HBR contributor, began arguing in 2007, with the book Redefining Global Strategy , that the world isn’t nearly as flat as Tom Friedman said it was.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Globalization marches on. But the pace isn’t all that fast, and the overall level of global connectedness still hasn’t gotten back to its all-time peak of 2007. Ghemawat, a frequent HBR contributor, began arguing in 2007, with the book Redefining Global Strategy , that the world isn’t nearly as flat as Tom Friedman said it was.

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Altman Globalization Transportation Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". But the interesting point here is that this growth is not confined to the natural resource sector; the increased economic activity has led to the development of complementary sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

New Orleanians new and old returned to their city with a newfound sense of urgency, and they began to look at some of those decades-old problems that had dogged the city with fresh eyes, whether in education, transportation, food service, or music. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Much has been written over the last decade about how the Internet, by enabling online commerce, social networks, and easy access to information and entertainment, has transformed the global economy. A Texas A&M study forecasts that by 2020 Americans will spend 45 hours per year tied up in traffic (compared to 38 hours in 2011).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. . Both the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The company has responded aggressively to criticism in the past, suing the BBC show "Top Gear" in 2011 over a 2008 review of the car; the case was tossed out of court. Musk was a co-founder of PayPal and is the chief designer at SpaceX, overseeing development of rockets and spacecraft. Tesla is run by visionary engineers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. After Jeff Immelt threw down the gauntlet for building a global software center, GE faced significant physical, organizational, and cultural challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011. The troubled plane has been grounded as global regulators investigate whether it's safe to fly.

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The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

I continued to race as an amateur for all of 2010 and 2011, but at the end of 2011 I quit my job and began competing professionally full-time. I was able to travel to some amazing places and do business in so many developing nations. It was a fascinating experience to feel like you were right in the heart of globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

that the nation’s transportation infrastructure urgently needs investment. For proposed projects to gain traction, various stakeholders must be aligned; chief among these are the companies that rely on transportation systems to connect them to customers and suppliers, and the government planners responsible for building these trade arteries.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. In developing countries, primary care tends to be delivered by a mix of public and private sector providers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

For example, positions in mobile development, which combines skills from engineering, coding, and computer science, have grown by 135 percent since 2011. These jobs—many of them in high paying fields like user experience design—call for skill sets that aren’t customarily taught as a package.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Social might is now moving toward your community, state, nation as well as global corporations. The institutions of modern developed societies, whether governments or companies, are not prepared for this social power. But overall these changes suggest a bright future for business and society globally. This is Canada's No.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

The contest is now shifting toward more-traditional industries, like transportation (Lyft and Uber, for example) and hospitality (Airbnb). Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies. Competing in the Future.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

In the Babson Executive Education analysis of 635 global companies, just under a third of companies with 1-10% growth preferred experimentation over other methodologies, such as statistical analysis, to identify revenue and operational improvement opportunities. Events can be used to share experiment results and get feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. Before AlphaGo played against a human, Google researchers had been developing it to play video games — Space Invaders , Breakout , Pong , and others. Natural languages. Deep learning.

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