Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. In his mind, both cleaning rituals demonstrated commitment and responsibility to a particular place.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. So at the Cancun climate talks , one country has already committed to updating it for the 21st century — by including the costs of environmental damage to make the numbers a little more meaningful. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean. That country?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Sub-Saharan Africa is already a competitive market place. The popular perception is that many African markets are all about energy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. Ask these same managers after a launch whether they met their performance objectives, and too many will answer “not quite” or “not at all.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

GDP shrunk this year by 5.5% Our horrendous public debt is compounding and the public debt to GDP ratio will soon hit almost 200%, a level that can force our country to default on a most of what it owes. Finally it must honor its commitment to elections on February 19, 2012. Consumption continues to drop.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

As readers of this blog already know, markets are far less integrated internationally than popular views of globalization presume. Their conclusions are corroborated not just by empirical experience but by experimental research on asset markets by Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith , among others. Smarter Financial Integration. in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The Federal Reserve had already engaged in quantitative easing (QE) by committing to buy about $1 trillion of securities, an amount than later grew through two additional rounds of QE. But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP. and took five months to go all the way down to 1%.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

This will shape agricultural markets in ways we have not seen before. First and foremost, farmers, trading companies, and other processing groups (Big Food in particular) need to commit to deforestation-free supply chains. lending that is more generous than market lending) and interest rate caps discourage bank lending.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. According to Barron's and others, China has already begun implementing its ambitious plan to increase installations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

The Trans-Pacific talks have involved 11 developed and developing Pacific Rim nations with a combined GDP of $40 trillion,and which recently got a jolt of energy and complexity when Japan (GDP=$6 trillion) joined the negotiations. The obvious symbol of Presidential commitment is the United States Trade Representative.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." Moving on to the pursuit of profit, which is baked in at every level of our economic and personal lives. "On

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

” The defining characteristics of companies in this super-sector are a commitment to innovation and a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in the workforce. trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. The first priority must be a renewed commitment to innovation. They employ 12.3

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

To get around this problem and to provide the markets with a united front of governments, Germany and France wanted to make the deal an EU-wide agreement and sought to obtain a unanimous agreement to seek appropriate Treaty changes. That may be true. Clearly it wasn't, and that fact should have been relatively obvious to the British team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

still remains the largest economy within a single national border (the EU is about the same size but includes 27 States) with a GDP that is 200% larger than that of China. The obligor's capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is very strong." But the U.S. After all, it's the first downgrade on U.S. debt, ever.

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Credit Rating Politics Bond GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

And it's just the latest in a series of Chinese commitments, which include the following: July 2010: 5 trillion yuan , or $800 billion, alternative energy plan over 10 years (this is like the part of the U.S. According to the bank HSBC, the clean economy will be a multi-trillion dollar market soon.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This time, nearly every country is entering the discussions with a legitimate commitment to cut carbon. And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago. What will be the likely outcome out of the talks? For example, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. Nearly 450 companies around the world have committed to reducing or eliminating deforestation from their supply chains, including many in the beef industry. Brazil’s Beef Industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

News of the United Kingdom’s vote to Leave the European Union shook financial markets Friday, and signalled the start of potentially years of economic uncertainty for Europe. There doesn’t seem to be any such panic right now, despite the very large turbulence in the exchange rate in the financial market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan was never a hardline believer in the rationality of financial markets. It’s true of GDP. It’s true of all commodity markets. I mean, I was really put down. Fear beats greed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

The aim of innovation policies, by contrast, is to foster the development of technologies that don’t yet exist and whose business models and markets are unknowable. Organizations capable of inventing these technologies must be attracted or built, and the result of their labors must be channeled into economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

GDP is masking deeper issues. Job satisfaction can perhaps be reduced to feeling content with one’s job, but the notion of (active) employee engagement requires individuals to be positively absorbed by their work and fully committed to advancing the organization’s interests. Which groups of workers are generally happier?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Cynics might well say that in educating people about the workings of small business loans or mortgages it is just expanding its market. When fully operational, this mine promises to account for somewhere between a quarter and a third of the GDP of Mongolia. Billboards can topple in a storm. With more partners comes more stability.

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Development Porter Banking Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Treasury securities; the world’s largest trading nation; the world’s largest e-commerce market; and the world’s largest economy in purchasing-power-parity terms. are in Asia and a fourth Asian country, India, has the potential to become the fastest-growing large emerging market in the world. Undermining U.S.

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Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The CDS market is factoring in a 100% probability that Greece will default, and pundits are starting to compare the costs of a Greek exit with the costs of a German one. Many Eurozone Europeans like the single market but have no desire to share control over their economic destiny. France's major banks have been downgraded.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

In October, The New Yorker 's James Surowiecki likened this approach to the pre-commitment mechanisms increasingly popular with those who wish to rid themselves of extra pounds or bad habits. The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In this brave new world, public companies are losing their dominance : their share of America’s GDP, workforce, and assets has fallen by 50% over the last quarter of the 20th century. Without external markets to please, they can take a long-term perspective and make decisions on the basis of sustainable economic value.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. In essence, the fortunate firms took on more debt, committing the business to a stream of cash flows and expenses far into the future to pay for their losses. In the U.S., Start-ups in particular, which almost always start small, are big contributors to economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

It also made economic sense, allowing Greece’s GDP to grow, and thus ultimately pay the creditors, as Paul Krugman has repeatedly argued. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. The initial reactions, in particular in the press, were positive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

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 clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S.,

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The threats that climate change poses to business, markets, and, indeed, capitalism are peculiarly hard for most top teams to spot, let alone act on. Such market dynamics behave like vortices — a whirlwind in the air, or a whirlpool in water. Imbibe the data. A growing number of indices now show the trajectory.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As cloud technology improves, however, it is becoming easier for companies to create products and services within the cloud, or model new products or marketing campaigns as cloud-based software prototypes. Pearson uses Kubernetes to develop, deploy and manage new kinds of online learning systems in developing markets like India and Mexico.

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Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. Since 1990, the market capitalization of multinational corporations has grown at more than three times the average rate of listed companies around the world, our research shows.

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Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Indeed, India subsequently suffered a dramatic drop in its GDP growth rate, which fell to 6.1% It most recent GDP growth figure has fallen to 5.7%, and part of that, too, can be attributed to the policy move from last November. Lesson Four: Beware of Digital Silver Bullets.

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