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.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. but in China as well, and there is too much global auto-assembly capacity chasing that demand. Another issue involves reallocating resources in the face of fundamental market shifts. government.

Restructuring 9

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. 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.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

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.

Policies 8

Policies Class Health Care Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Political uncertainties and the absence of strong leadership contributed to social fragmentation. Massive layoffs ensued, and the labor market turned flexible far too rapidly, with many formerly middle-class workers losing permanent contracts and reliable salaries. Both countries’ uncertainties in political leadership are also alike.

Consensus 8

Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. This becomes particularly important in the context of cyber-crime and the alarming rise of business models being held for ransom or political gain.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can generate political capital with government regulators, who may then grant the company greater freedom of movement. Since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in 2013, garment retailers such as Walmart have contributed to improving working conditions for workers. It’s not for every company.

Execution 10

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 10

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. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

Finance 8

Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

In the World Economic Forum''s Global Risks 2013 report, the respondents named "rising greenhouse gas emissions" as the third most likely risk to the global economy (after inequity and deficits/debt). It doesn''t take an advance political science degree to recognize that this list of policies will help us tackle climate change.

Policies 8

Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 8

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

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But both trade and political alignment lumbered slowly forward until the current quarter and many American executives had become flustered with their India initiatives. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 10

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. Digital players wield outsize market power.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

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. The global rush to join the new bank, despite American protestations , is the latest chapter in the larger story of China’s emergence as a prime challenger to the U.S. And once again, the U.S. and NATO forces.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

This reinvention demonstrates that substantial organizational change is possible, even amid barriers such as regulations and politics. The space industry is now a global, multi-faceted, multi-stakeholder endeavor, where commercial activity accounts for the lion’s share of value.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the 2016 Edelman Global Trust Barometer survey, of more than 33,000 people around the world, only 27% of leaders were seen as behaving in open and transparent ways. In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

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).

Class 85

Class Leadership Politics eBook 85

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. 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. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

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. economy that American companies compete successfully in foreign markets.

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Competitive Intelligence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For much of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that the inequities of life stemmed from the incomplete expansion of technology, industry, and the market, and would be resolved by further modernization. But for several decades it’s been clear that the gains of modernization for some have produced substantial losses for others.

Class 8

Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 8

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. In other words, business leaders have been dealing with the direct, market-based risks presented by major economic, technological, and demographic trends.

Politics 9

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 9

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

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). trade policy, opening both the American and foreign markets to an unprecedented degree. Global trade negotiations remained a U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Policies Globalization Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

On one hand, there are wars, terror, market crashes, bailouts, budget crises, cliffs, and sequesters. This is part of the reason that the stock market, which used to move a fraction of a percent each day, now shifts in record swings with increasing volume. Volatility and stress are as bad for business as they are for the brain.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In 2002 the Commission switched course again and ruled that broadband access provided by cable TV companies was an information service — the reasoning being, in part, that cable broadband had ended the DSL monopoly and created a competitive market once again. Broadband internet service in the U.S. As of 2012, the U.S.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Antitrust came to represent the Magna Carta of free enterprise – it was seen as the key to preserving economic and political freedom. As Jeffry Frieden’s book Global Capitalism recounts, under the fascist economic order the government, directly or through state-owned holding companies, largely controlled the economy.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Stephenson Industry 8

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. If the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8