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Do Women-Only Networking Groups Harm Female Entrepreneurship?

The Horizons Tracker

The report suggests that if rates were broadly equal, then global GDP would grow by up to 6%, which would boost the global economy by an incredible $5 trillion. It’s a discrepancy that has been tackled head on by Invest NI, a regional development agency in the country. ”

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What China’s 13th Five-Year Plan Means for Business

Harvard Business Review

China’s Communist Party recently approved the 13th Five-Year Plan , designed to guide the country’s social, political, and economic development through the second half of this decade. What is the significance of the plan? What are the main characteristics of the latest plan? Companies in China will have to build new capabilities.

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What Greece Has to Do Now: Fix Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

Greece did have some good arguments going for it: It had achieved the biggest fiscal adjustment any developed country had mustered so far , stabilized its economy, and restructured its private debt. This unfortunate state of affairs is partly the result of the difficult negotiating hand Greece dealt itself.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. In retrospect, not very much.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP. percent over the ten years of the construction bubble, while loans to developers constituted nearly 50 percent of national output by 2007. percent to 102.9 percent in the first quarter of 2009 alone.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

Google’s restructuring as Alphabet is one sign of its entry into several new vertical markets, including driverless cars, smart homes, smart cities, and health. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs.