Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Speaking at the recent Global Philanthropy Forum , Toyin Saraki — founder and president of the WellBeing Foundation Africa — articulated her evolving approach to giving. Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. By developing autonomy, children boost self-esteem. We are not the political party we vote for. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

According to the International Labour Organization, workers in developed and developing countries are facing increasing strain at work. Researchers at the University of Buffalo found that stressors, big and small, help us develop the skills to face other taxing or stressful circumstances in the future.

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Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When we reach its second and subsequent chapters, political uncertainty is likely to return and affect the financial, institutional, and real economies. These structural challenges, along with similar ones in other geographies, will drive up uncertainty in the global business environment. Brexit is a process, not an event.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Finally, in September 2013, faced with mounting social discontent, Premier Li Keqiang announced a sweeping new plan to try to address the country’s air quality problems. For almost two decades, the environment has been at the forefront of civil society development. Environmental activism in China is not new.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The decline of manufacturing has dominated the political narrative in the United States, but there are dual plotlines within this well-known story. Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Just yesterday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a new report predicting that the economy of China will rebound and grow 8.5% in 2013 and 8.9% Sure, forecasts presume stability and can be knocked off course by economic downturns, natural disasters, political unrest, and unchecked corruption.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Forty years ago, about quarter of American workers belonged to unions, and those unions were a major economic and political force. of private-sector workers were union members in 2013. economy and politics. Unions no longer give lower-income Americans a political voice. Now union membership is down to 11.2% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The technological advances of the digital age have allowed the global workforce to be better connected, more collaborative, and have greater personal impact than ever before. More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. Or are they?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

On November 15, 2013, China announced dramatic new social and economic policies contemplating much greater reliance on market forces than it has in the past and inviting private-sector participation and foreign competition in industries long previously controlled by the central government. China will grow faster in 2014 than in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can generate political capital with government regulators, who may then grant the company greater freedom of movement. Rather than aiming at all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , for example, companies will likely tailor their sustainability efforts to their commercial priorities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. However, remaining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

China’s global economic power continues to grow, yet the decision-making dynamics of its top leadership remain a mystery. According to a recent survey by the Development Research Centre, a think-tank under the State Council, 74% of “migrant workers” want to settle in cities because of the better services available.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

You’re probably familiar with the basic outlines, but it’s worth throwing out a few numbers from their most recent update : From 1993 to 2013, incomes of the bottom 99% of taxpayers in the U.S. but by now a clearly global phenomenon. It is one of the most dramatic economic developments of the past quarter century. The top 0.1%

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. Advanced industries are our most globally competitive industries, accounting for a full two-thirds of U.S. They employ 12.3

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013. That will require the development of new corporate capabilities and resources. China Global business Government'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. If we train enough of them, I think we’ll see many positive changes in the years to come.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber built up staff, procedures, and software systems whose purpose was to enable and mobilize passengers and drivers to lobby regulators and legislators — creating political disaster for anyone who questioned Uber’s approach. Participation in the global community requires respect for and compliance with the law.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The real issue is to develop the corporate leadership skills to manage a feminizing talent pool and a feminizing customer base. More than the much-publicized debates around boards, the executive team is the result of years of talent development. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Everyone we spoke to in the company was polite, helpful, and increasingly apologetic. But trying to get paid by a global company with 80,000 employees, I came to realize that noone owned the problem. If you are a business leader, you don’t want to see any of these developments occur. And yet somehow they couldn’t pay us.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. It’s stated mission is to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia.” billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8

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Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. ” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The World Economic Forum has just come out with their latest data on global gender equality, and the short version could well be this old Beatles lyric: “I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. For instance, in Latin America, several countries surged ahead as more women were elected to political office. A little better, all the time. (It

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. This reinvention demonstrates that substantial organizational change is possible, even amid barriers such as regulations and politics.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

The business world has been buzzing about the rising "global middle class" for at least a decade. billion in 2030 (out of a projected global population of 8.3 billion in 2030 (out of a projected global population of 8.3 Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2013. The global middle class awakens. billion).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. You’ll never find any interesting deals there.” ” Sure, I would respond.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Most Americans — and both political parties — have come around to the view that attracting skilled immigrants is good for the U.S. In a global economy, it is increasingly clear that the country with the most educated, diverse pool of qualified talent will win. in the fourth quarter of 2013. And it’s essential to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After Sandy raged across the eastern coast, Businessweek blared on its cover " It's Global Warming, Stupid." Based on similar numbers, both McKinsey and PwC UK calculated how fast we must reduce the carbon intensity of the global economy ( PwC's number is 5% per year until 2050 ). The share of U.S. Company Stories.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. Having navigated globalization and rapid technological change, businesses may be scuppered by the social and political responses to them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Much of continental Europe is convulsed with similar combinations of disaffection , protectionism , and, in some cases, nationalism and even racism that have morphed into a more-or-less generalized anger against globalization. Pro-globalizers need to do a better job of making their case. In the U.S., distributors, retailers, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

From the early nineteenth century, trade was a divisive issue in American politics—and the fault-line fell fairly neatly between slave and non-slave states. percent in 2013). postwar administrations pursued only comprehensive, global trade accords, and strongly criticized preferential deals limited to a few countries.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Despite the negative political climate, many polls show voters support trade. A new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that 60% of Americans support the negotiations for trans-Pacific trade , down slightly from 2015. This uncertainty calls for political leadership. Vincent Tsui for HBR. enacts it. .”

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