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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. If you’ve ever watched a large commercial logistics operation at work, you’ll have noticed something: everything is standardized. Improve Your Distribution Network Through Standardisation.

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How Big a Competitive Threat Is China, Really?

Harvard Business Review

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. China, by contrast, is simply open. China is obviously an important economic player.

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Stretching Your Global Mindset

Harvard Business Review

They have big real world consequences, particularly as is the case now with Europe's debt crises and bailouts, when collective prosperity depends on the extension — as opposed to contraction — of cooperation, trust, and sympathy across borders and distances. Hardly a promise to value every human being equally.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. percentage points of GDP growth per year).

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, it’s GDP per capita of $72,700 marks it out as one of the wealthiest nations on earth. . Nugent, and Hoda Selim, explores the topic through the particular lens of the six Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. Indeed, while direct revenue from oil and gas fell to below 50% of GDP in 2017 (from 60.1%

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If the U.S. Gets into a Trade War with the EU, It Will Lose an Ally in Pressuring China

Harvard Business Review

cooperation on global trade will be compromised for some time if the tariffs go into effect. The SOEs produce 33% of China’s GDP and account for 20% of its jobs; the central government controls one-third of the SOEs. Besides whatever damage the conflict could do to U.S. The need for restrictions and transparency.

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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade. And it will take cooperative innovation to fix this problem, and restore the health of the internet.