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The Three Reforms China Must Enact: Land, Social Services, and Taxes

Harvard Business Review

China’s global economic power continues to grow, yet the decision-making dynamics of its top leadership remain a mystery. This complicates the ability of outsiders to understand the purpose for and implications of policy changes. What Needs to Change.

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Are CEOs Really India’s Leading Export?

Harvard Business Review

A systematic analysis of mid-2013 data on the world’s largest firms by revenue, the Fortune Global 500, shows that at that time only three non-Indian firms were led by Indian CEOs: Arcelor Mittal (Lakshmi Mittal), Deutsche Bank (Anshu Jain), and PepsiCo (Indra Nooyi). Global business Leadership Microsoft'

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How Happy Is Your Organization?

Harvard Business Review

Today, March 20, 2013, marks the first ever International Day of Happiness. It was hosted by Bhutan, a small but visionary country which famously uses Gross National Happiness (GNH) instead of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to index its progress.

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Your Board Should Be Full of Activists

Harvard Business Review

Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Average compensation in 2013 across the advanced industries sector was $90,000—nearly double that of workers in other industries. Although the United States maintains world leadership in many advanced industries, that leadership position is eroding.

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China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Harvard Business Review

of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe. in 2002, and should touch 2.0% by 2020, according to the World Bank.

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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. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash.