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

Strategy Driven

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Returns management should be a major focus.

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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Beyond GDP, How the World's Economies Stack Up

Harvard Business Review

These days, many people agree that, just as the full measure of a man can't be taken by his banker, the full measure of a nation isn't reflected in its GDP. We write about all this in our forthcoming book, Standing on the Sun, but since our manuscript was copyedited in October, we went to press with 2010 numbers.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees. In some sectors, the global market demands for English-speaking workers makes a global career quite attractive. Translators were employed for cross-border communications.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years.

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Promoting Entrepreneurship in Vulnerable Economies

Harvard Business Review

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. Chief among these are access to capital, access to markets, and access to networks and skills development. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

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