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Nigeria’s GDP Just Doubled on Paper: What It Means in Practice

Harvard Business Review

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested.

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

The blockchain is a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data. And it potentially eliminates the need for all intermediaries in most transactions, even those outside finance. If your organization is approached next year, what will you do? Do you have a point of view and a plan to address backdoors?

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. In adult care, CMS announced in 2015 ambitious value-based payment goals for Medicare, which were achieved 11 months ahead of schedule. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.

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How Multinationals Can Adapt to a Political Mood That Doesn’t Care for Them at All

Harvard Business Review

Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient. in 2015, while foreign direct investment from the United States fell from 2.9% Fourth are the broader demands for corporations to be socially responsible. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3%