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A Better Approach to Infrastructure Planning

Harvard Business Review

Why aren’t more projects underway? For proposed projects to gain traction, various stakeholders must be aligned; chief among these are the companies that rely on transportation systems to connect them to customers and suppliers, and the government planners responsible for building these trade arteries. We know in the U.S.

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Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Harvard Business Review

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. further sanctions, oil price drop, protests, etc.)

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How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business Review

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. At the recent Brexit Workshop we held for clients — in this case, 19 UK heads of some of the world’s largest multinational firms — 10 of them had not started or had only just begun planning for Brexit.

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What a Good Moonshot Is Really For

Harvard Business Review

Google''s moonshots include expansive projects like its driverless car and Google Glass efforts. But in turbulent times, these approaches can lead companies to miss critical market inflection points. Take the driverless car, for example. The term has experienced a recent resurgence in the corporate world.

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. For example , U.S. Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010.