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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). Indians have indeed gone out and achieved great managerial success abroad.

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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. If the party leaders do tackle these reforms, success is far from assured. This complicates the ability of outsiders to understand the purpose for and implications of policy changes. What Needs to Change.

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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

Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. 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. Together, these industries have an outsized impact on the U.S. They employ 12.3

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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.