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Global Demand for Food Is Rising. Can We Meet It?

Harvard Business Review

Advanced logistics, transportation, storage, and processing are also crucial for making sure that food goes from where it grows in abundance to where it doesn’t. To attract more financing and investment in agriculture, the risks need to be reduced by governments. Our food security will depend on it.

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The Economic Impact of the Japanese Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. Japan's economic policy makers are being put to the test once again. The direct impact on real economic activity worldwide is already being felt. for the second quarter.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. However, remaining U.S.

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You Don’t Need an “India Strategy” — You Need a Strategy for Each State in India

Harvard Business Review

In one illustration of these difficulties, consider that India currently ranks 100 out of 190 countries in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings, 22 places behind China, 39 places behind Indonesia, and just nine places above Papua New Guinea. This data is publicly available on each state’s website.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. But in 1904, after his first time seeing a car in Flint, Michigan, he was one of the first to see that the future was going to be in a radically new form of transportation powered by internal combustion engines.

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture. Last month, IBM launched a dialogue with the government of Nigeria. It’s neither.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Economist Ronald Coase proposed auctioning off segments of the electromagnetic spectrum in late 1950s, a policy idea that was later adopted in the 1990s. Many large banks, other financial institutions and some large manufacturing companies also had their own economic staffs. Economists and finance. This has all changed.