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Can America’s Blue States Tackle Climate Change on Their Own?

Harvard Business Review

However, by subsidizing the shift to green energy, richer blue states can make the eventual transition easier for fossil-fuel-dependent red states. Together, such policies would encourage energy-efficient cars and buildings and cleaner power generation. For the time being, U.S. climate policy will be fractured by political geography.

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect. Mexico and Brazil alone account for over 60% of Latin America’s GDP and most regional revenue for multinationals. growth in real GDP.

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Would You Invest in This Kid?

Harvard Business Review

His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. Had he been born in Texas, he might be a young CEO running an energy company by now, because the funds would inevitably flow. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion.

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If GE did more than take advantage of growth as it came. It’s neither.

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Doing Business in a Post-Fidel Cuba

Harvard Business Review

With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America). Second, Cuba confronts the difficult task of unburdening its largely stalled state-led economy.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. ” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6 Digital markets are uneven.