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Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt

Harvard Business Review

The objective of most Chinese enterprises is to export products and earn foreign currency," he told Harvard Business School researchers in the 1980s. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business Review

We often think we’re starting far ahead of where we objectively are and that we’ve arrived when we’re still hundreds of miles from our goal. Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. Identify experts inside and outside your company.

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Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt

Harvard Business Review

The objective of most Chinese enterprises is to export products and earn foreign currency," he told Harvard Business School researchers in the 1980s. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8