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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business Review

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. Having navigated globalization and rapid technological change, businesses may be scuppered by the social and political responses to them.

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

Harvard Business Review

The Economist bemoans their “ great deceleration ” and HBR featured a well-researched study on how multinationals are becoming less global. Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend. By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. Asia Pacific. Latin America.

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3 Reasons Global Firms Should Keep Investing in India

Harvard Business Review

On the other hand, you have the media pointing out the country’s shallow middle class, growing inequality and joblessness, and a trail of multinationals frustrated by the lack of China-like success in India. In fact, JCB makes half its global profits in India. India has seen growth in infrastructure spending.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

Much of continental Europe is convulsed with similar combinations of disaffection , protectionism , and, in some cases, nationalism and even racism that have morphed into a more-or-less generalized anger against globalization. Pro-globalizers need to do a better job of making their case. In the U.S., by almost half.

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What Corporations Can Learn From a 4,000-Person Parade Extravaganza (Seriously)

Harvard Business Review

Winning or losing the carnival parade contest is decided by a cohort of referees who assess each samba school on 10 criteria that resemble key performance indicators (KPIs) in the corporate world. The result is spectacular, and Brazil’s carnival parades have become a world-class show transmitted by TV to over 100 countries.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. But both trade and political alignment lumbered slowly forward until the current quarter and many American executives had become flustered with their India initiatives. Many other recent ambassadors have returned to Washington in two years or less.

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Understanding the New Battle Over Net Neutrality

Harvard Business Review

That is, after all, what 90% of what’s written on this topic amounts to (the other 10% can be found mostly on the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal ). Early indications are that it will be an Animal Farm sort of net neutrality, with some nets more neutral than others. Republicans are from Comcast, Democrats are from Google.