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How Big a Competitive Threat Is China, Really?

Harvard Business Review

China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. By comparison, China's FDI stock equals 8% of its GDP; more than 70% of that FDI consists of wholly foreign-owned enterprises (as opposed to joint ventures); and foreign firms produce half of China's exports and more than 90% of China's high-tech exports. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China

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Impact Investing Needs Millennials

Harvard Business Review

We find such comparisons premature, but agree in one respect: to scale, impact investing will require a small contingent of ambitious investors prepared to make sizeable bets on promising entrepreneurs in order to demonstrate the asset class’s viability. Third, growing impact investing will take collaboration and cooperation.

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How to Reverse-Engineer Criticism

Harvard Business Review

Walmart case show that during the period examined women consistently and in every geographic sector, worked longer, performed better and gained more experience, for less pay with less reward and with far lower chance of promotion — at every level — than men, using exact, side-by-side comparisons.

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business Review

A more useful comparison is that of a builder of communities, with investors, suppliers, partners and, most of all, your employees. At the end of the day, organizations are collections of people; this means that superior organizations need more effective ways for them to cooperate and work toward a common goal.

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