Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Globalization is not what it was even a decade ago. The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world. But globalization hasn’t gone into reverse. Rethink your global footprint and organizational structures.

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. To keep the rise of global temperatures below 1.5 Meanwhile, even middle-class Americans are being priced out of the housing market in states like California, where average low-tier property prices went up by 10% in 2015. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

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. Global business'

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call. Habitat has thereby transformed the nature and scale of its impact.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Consider the challenge companies face in the rapidly changing market for power train compressors.

CEO 12

CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. Collectively, the world’s investment giants hold in excess of $70 trillion in assets, which represents the bulk of investable capital globally. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. into multiple global markets. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

Energy 8

Energy Licensing Efficiency Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations. Both the U.K.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

The company now has more than 20 million investors in 170 companies and, as of the end of last year, manages more than $3 trillion in global assets. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 Second, Vanguard tested the waters before diving in.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. China Economy Finance' Remember, these difficulties are the fruits of success.

GDP 9

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. The New Tools of Marketing. Where do they shop? The internet. What don’t they like? Being pitched to. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally. Some estimate the market for market research alone at $20 billion annually.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. They’re now working on version 8, which they will produce in October, and version 10, with better lighting, and there is a design projected for 2015. They intend to launch new products every year.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, in 2015, Maersk and MSC, the world’s two largest liner shipping companies, established 2M, a 10-year vessel sharing agreement covering 193 vessels. A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

With growing congestion a global megatrend, companies have a choice. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Over the past 18 months, Sergey’s experience has been echoed in offices in Ukraine, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and many other emerging markets that have faced substantial currency depreciation due to the drop in commodity prices and the flow of capital to the U.S. Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g.,

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

In 2014, global political volatility reached an intensity not seen since the end of the Cold War. Taken together, what do they mean for global businesses? Europe is at the top of your risk list for 2015. You look at Podemos in Spain, with elections coming up in 2015. Russia and Ukraine. Iran and Syria. Should the U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. For some banks, the answer is simply: Yes.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

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

DECEMBER 6, 2016

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. corporations are global leaders. And in practice, the foreign income of U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Both then and in 1686, when Lloyd’s was born in a London coffee house, the global insurance industry was a business of utmost good faith , as it remains today.

Insurance 11

Insurance Industry Market Penetration Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% At 20%, China’s share of global R&D expenditure in 2015 was well above Japan’s at 9% or Germany’s at 6% and second only to that of the U.S. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

He had no idea that the ad they’d just run to launch their latest mass-market device was so completely male-oriented. Whether it’s in recruiting materials or executive speeches, in advertising or marketing messaging, companies tend to talk in stereotypes, even if they have female-dominated marketing teams.

Company 8

Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Most of our top tech CEOs created value by rolling out earlier breakthrough innovations in a newly high-growth market.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Not Good at All Google Finally Discloses Its Diversity Record, and It’s Not Good PBS NewsHour Google released its global workforce numbers, revealing that 70% of its employees are men, a number that increases to 83% and 79% if you look only at tech jobs and leadership roles. Two percent of Google employees are black.

Short-term 8

Short-term Mass Marketing Long-term Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Infuse Start-Up America with a global perspective. Opportunities and markets are global. Entrepreneurs don't need to help America beat China or Brazil in addressing the needs of customers and markets. I suggest that Obama announces now that Start-Up America will officially disband on December 31, 2015.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Each year INSEAD and WIPO team up to produce the Global Innovation Index , which aims to rank nations according to their innovative capacity and outputs. Indeed, the Global Entrepreneurship Development Institute ranks the country a lowly 122nd out of 137 countries. Rules of the game.

Succession 82

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

They can also be industry-specific, flexible, and tailored to meet the needs of the individual users across organizations — from marketing to finance, and levels from C-suite to middle management. • Machine learning and cognitive computing.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. Sue, a partner at a global professional services firm, desperately wanted to carve out a life for herself outside of work.

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Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12