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. In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work. The result is relentlessly mounting performance pressure.

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Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 8

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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Politics Sharpe Education Hotels 9

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 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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Policies Class Health Care Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. It can generate political capital with government regulators, who may then grant the company greater freedom of movement. Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. 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.

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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. This dynamic can stall important change (e.g.,

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

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.

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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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Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 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.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. Competing nations have also been expanding their space exploration efforts.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 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.

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Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

When it comes to discussions on the various challenges leaders need to address in today’s fast-changing global economy, there’s one topic that merits a proper assessment as to whether or not it’s really an issue for today’s organizations. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P., Badger J.M., 3) Finegold D.,

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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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Class Leadership Politics eBook 85

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

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. Some of those so-called liquidity events are small by global standards, like the $30 million that customer service chat provider Zopim fetched.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

What about the companies and entrepreneurs that create cleaner ways of operating or provide the pollution-reducing technologies? And our companies will be more competitive globally as every country struggles with pollution. Why don't our industry and political leaders? Those are real jobs too , aren't they?

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Cost Industry Constraint Innovation 10

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. To make modernization work for all, we must take a more critical look at how we measure economic and technological progress.

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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 ). Five Questions For 2013. The share of U.S.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

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. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The American Customer Satisfaction Index gives Internet service providers (the cable industry) a score of 65 for 2013 — the worst of any industry tracked — with hoping-to-merge giants Time Warner Cable and Comcast at even more dismal scores of 63 and 62, respectively. Information & technology Innovation Internet' As of 2012, the U.S.

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Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 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.

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