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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. So what are we to do? Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. From an economic perspective, its goal is much the same as India's updated GDP 2.0: But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

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Does Your Company Have What It Takes to Go Global?

Harvard Business Review

To identify the internal factors that distinguish successful and unsuccessful ventures, we divided respondents into two groups: winners, whose expansion efforts met business performance objectives such as sales, profit, and market share goals, and losers, whose efforts failed to achieve goals. Publicly reinforcing stated goals.