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Is The Single Market Preventing Digital Champions In Europe?

The Horizons Tracker

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040.

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The Joy of Facts

Next Level Blog

leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. And the majority of the opinions are "left" or "right" New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was on Oprah last week discussing education reform. It’s common to hear someone say about the U.S., “We We have the best health care system in the world.”

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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. Scarcer jobs and diminishing wages can only lead to greater inequality and global instability.

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services. But we suspected that diversity might play a different role at different stages of development. percentage points.

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Does Your Company Have What It Takes to Go Global?

Harvard Business Review

They adapt the firm’s marketing policies and practices to the opportunity by: Educating HQ on prevailing target-market standards. Investments made in improving these seven factors will pay dividends in both the short and long term by helping the company develop and sustain the culture and capabilities required for global success.

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Business Can't Solve the World's Problems — But Capitalism Can

Harvard Business Review

Even social business will not address those issues for which markets cannot be developed. This we call ethics. So charities are petrified of exploring new revenue-generating methods and can't develop the powerful learning curves that the for-profit sector can. I serve on the board of a center for the developmentally disabled.