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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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CEO Next Door Book Reveals Four Key Behaviors Of Successful CEOs And Busts CEO Myths

Eric Jacobson

non-farm GDP). Ivy League graduates are more prevalent among the ranks of Fortune 500 CEOs, but outside of that small set of the largest companies, there’s a much broader range of educational backgrounds and pedigree. Furthermore, 97 percent of low-performing CEOs scored high on work ethic. For CEOs, the smarter, the better.

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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. Government expenditure on education remains dramatically higher than it is in other OECD countries.

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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. We looked only at immigrants’ nationality, not other markers of diversity such as race, language, gender, education, or religion.

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

Harvard Business Review

This we call ethics. Americans give about $300 billion to nonprofit organizations annually, most of it to education and religious institutions. from 2% of GDP to just 3%, that would amount to an additional $150 billion in annual giving. Only about 15% of that — $45 billion — goes to health and human services causes.