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Women on Business
OCTOBER 6, 2013
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OCTOBER 6, 2013
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N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest. Leading a global workforce of more than 840,000 people is not for the faint of heart. .” Professor Huggy Rao, Stanford Graduate School of Business .
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The Horizons Tracker
DECEMBER 27, 2021
The company, which was founded in 2013, currently has around 46 solar installations generating over 500 megawatts across Europe. Corporate giants are responsible for 70% of global electricity. Swedish company Alight have been working to help encourage larger companies to utilize solar energy to power their operations. consumption.
The Horizons Tracker
JANUARY 13, 2020
Shocking headlines emerged in 2013 when households across the UK proclaimed broadband access to be more important to them than water. ” We have already enshrined in law the global right to health, despite the evident challenges in providing high quality care to the entire world. ” Access to free speech.
Great Leadership By Dan
JANUARY 9, 2014
These noble families also held positions of power in the English political system, from which they were able to pass laws that protected their privileges and claims. Global trade had driven down agricultural prices, eroding the traditional sources of wealth for the great estates and gradually starving the aristocracy of income.
Tanveer Naseer
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Of course, the ability for an organization to create value not only impacts how innovative it can be, but also whether it can succeed and thrive in today’s fast-paced, interconnected global economy. Guy Kawasaki and Tanveer Naseer – MHLC 2013 3. “It’s
Coaching Tip
OCTOBER 29, 2013
In a fast-paced global society, we need a strong moral foundation. About the Author: Linda Fisher Thornton is one of the 2013 Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior. How Good Are You in Managing Office Politics? By Guest Author Linda Fisher Thornton. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership. Related articles.
Tanveer Naseer
JANUARY 9, 2018
The unfortunate truth is that we’re living in an increasingly divisive world – whether it’s because of our political viewpoints, because of our religious beliefs, or even because of where we or our parents came from.
Mills Scofield
OCTOBER 26, 2014
But he is here - a globally adored artist, a proud father, and a catalyst for progressive social change. Not only was this a way to articulate what was important in all aspects of his life, it was a turning pointp for him because it put him on a path to becoming more directly involved in politics.
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 25, 2016
In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 30 years—and the presidency from Reagan to George W.
Strategy Driven
MAY 6, 2016
Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. Max also oversaw the TW:IN trend spotter network until 2013, hosting meetups everywhere from Johannesburg to Manila. To scan for consumer trends you must understand the three core ingredients that they’re made of: 1.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2018
After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after news of Khashoggi’s killing broke. Business survives politics, fortunately.”
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. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. So far, over 240,000 trainees have graduated the FiKA program.
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
We are not the political party we vote for. Mark Ingwer is a business psychologist and the founding partner of Insight Consulting Group, a global marketing and strategy consultancy specializing in consumer and business insights. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. We are not the company we work for.
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.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. For many of us, the initial response to stress is to look for external fixes.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 28, 2017
After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Recently, Bitcoin has become popular in the country with the digital currency trading at $13,000 USD in October (at the time about 50% higher than Bitcoin’s global price).
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.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 19, 2016
To many, political lobbying is seen as a way to advance special interests at the expense of the greater good. My co-authors, Jinghui Lim and Nick Nairn-Birch, and I examined Lobbying Disclosure Act data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics , to see which firms actually lobby on climate change, and how much they spend.
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. In 2013, the environment surpassed illegal land expropriation as the largest source of social unrest in the country. Environmental activism in China is not new.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
in 2013 and 8.9% In our new book, The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India , we posit that growth in China and India will not occur along a straight line, and both countries will have to overcome corruption, imprudent investments, social disharmony, pollution, natural disasters, and political conflict.
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.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
Political uncertainties and the absence of strong leadership contributed to social fragmentation. The Korean economy is increasing at a rate of less than 3% for the third consecutive year in 2013 – far below its potential growth. Both countries’ uncertainties in political leadership are also alike. Economy Global business'
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.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
Digital technology unfolded on top of a second force that had been building for a few decades: a global movement in public policy towards economic liberalization which was systematically reducing barriers to the movement of goods, money, people, and ideas across the boundaries of nations and industries. But times have changed.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
but in China as well, and there is too much global auto-assembly capacity chasing that demand. For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Car sales in the U.S.
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.
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.
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. Standing in opposition are the politically powerful local governments, which have plenty to lose. China Economy Global business' What Needs to Change. Significant Opposition.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 28, 2013
The report is available online , as is a really rich interactive tool that allows you to slice the data and see how your company compares with some of the global sentiment. 82% of the CEOs in the survey said they were going to spend time changing their customer strategies in 2013. We caught up with PwC U.S.
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. Extreme wealth corrupts the political process. grew 6.6%, adjusted for inflation. The top 0.1%
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?
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.
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. China Global business Government' Is It Time to Be Skeptical on China? Do You Really Want to Bet Against China?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Many experts frame Greece’s decision to leave the Euro currency in terms of politics, viz. Political inclinations are irrelevant; what matters is which of the two will lead to a brighter future for the Greek economy. That will lead to more instability, which could hurt the fragile global economy.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
But until now, it’s been relatively unclear how much people think CEOs should really make compared to other workers on a global scale. Though he notes some movement on that front, including an unsuccessful vote in Switzerland to cap the ratio at 12 to 1 in 2013 and recent protests by fast food workers in the U.S. 1; Table 2).
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.
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
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.
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. Think back, one more time, to the global financial crisis and what caused it. And yet somehow they couldn’t pay us.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2014
The global economy is broken. Globally, the unemployment rate is 4.5%, according to recent data from the World Economic Forum – but for workers under 24, it’s 12.5%. It’s roughly one in five in Europe, and it’s getting worse , not better: youth unemployment rates reached record highs in 2013 in Greece ( 65% ) and Spain ( 56.1% ).
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard. It's a political, economic and social one. It seems essential in 2013 to recognize the difference. More than the much-publicized debates around boards, the executive team is the result of years of talent development. Couples — Personal Priorities.
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