Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. There will be retail marijuana chain stores a la Starbucks and cannabis-infused beverage brands like Coke. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The old structures of the postwar labor market are not up to the task of the 21st – century wave of automation, particularly for the low- and middle-skill workers already disadvantaged by previous skill-biased technological change and globalization. The Economy in 2018.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

For example, despite subdued consumer demand, new clothing retailers are moving into South Africa to tap the country’s underserved middle class. And despite government revenues having been hit hard in Angola, medical device companies are still selling expensive equipment to the ministry of health.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. As any good retailer will tell you, you need to understand your customers to be successful. The right team. Big Data talent is a critical issue.

Team 8

Team McKinsey Comparison Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. Hospitals , too, are merging horizontally when they can, as did pharmacy retailers. The efficiencies of online business have continued to fell the old giants of retailing. The global remix is not new at all.

Automotive 8

Automotive Retail Restructuring Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

On the one hand, you have Prime Minister Modi declaring at the 2018 World Economic Forum that India’s economy, already the fifth largest in the world, will double to $5 trillion by 2025. While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The beer maker started as South Africa’s national champion, snapped up global brands such as Pilsner Urquell, Miller Lite, and Peroni, and ended up on the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE 100 list before being acquired by rival Anheuser-Busch InBev for $103 billion in late 2016. Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, and Georges Desvaux.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The Economy in 2018. For example, in the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, rising consumer purchasing power boosted productivity growth in both the retail and the auto sector, by encouraging a shift to higher-value goods that can be supplied at higher productivity levels. But more recently there has been a glimmer of hope. percentage points.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Unfortunately for every other country, this is a global story. can't get its act together, the world can't create global policies, and thus the Cancun meeting last week resulted in some nice agreements to raise funds for adaptation — arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, anyone? When the U.S. Resources get very tight.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. The short story is that we have less room than before. European companies are doing more than U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Mexico’s fast-approaching July 2018 general election, of which the populist leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the current frontrunner, is further making the case for incremental investments by multinationals corporations. market but also as a priority market in their global portfolios.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

But given Trump’s likely stance, any global progress on climate will happen in spite of headwinds from the U.S. With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. This is all promising.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We are witnessing a big, transitional moment – akin to the transition from analog to digital, or the realization that globalization is a really big deal. The Economy in 2018. Big retailers and textile firms can make supply chains greener, safer, and less corrupt. The question, then, is: why now?

CEO 11

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 11