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The Migration Patterns Of Academics

The Horizons Tracker

. “We followed every single one of the roughly 17 million researchers listed in the bibliographic database through the years and noticed changes in affiliation and, by using that tactic we know how many academics left a given country every year.”

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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year.

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Making the Choice Between Money and Meaning

Harvard Business Review

It's not, after all, rocket science — jiggle GDP; juggle taxes and subsidies; break up the monoliths — hey, presto: an "economy" in which material wealth roughly, crudely lines up with meaning; in which "profit" reflects real human benefit delivered (instead of how many towns and lives you've looted this quarter).

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How Marketing Is Evolving in Latin America

Harvard Business Review

The region will soon represent 10% of the global population and 9% of global GDP, with 640 million customers. Latin America is a modern marketer’s dream, and not just because of its size. By 2020, nearly one out of every 10 dollars in the world economy will come from Latin America.

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Leadership's Full Measure

Harvard Business Review

Whether at the level of whole economies fixating on GDP or corporations trying to nail quarterly earnings targets, managers are being influenced by the wrong metrics and making decisions that actually leave us worse off. We're seeing some leaders use a new tactic to create a chorus.

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Making the Choice Between Money and Meaning

Harvard Business Review

It's not, after all, rocket science — jiggle GDP; juggle taxes and subsidies; break up the monoliths — hey, presto: an "economy" in which material wealth roughly, crudely lines up with meaning; in which "profit" reflects real human benefit delivered (instead of how many towns and lives you've looted this quarter).

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Scotland’s Future Is Bright; the UK’s Might Not Be

Harvard Business Review

There is clearly something to this; while declines in manufacturing employment have hit the Scottish economy hard, manufacturing has also been in decline as a share of GDP across the advanced economies over the past 25 years. Gordon Brown said during the campaign that Scotland’s fight should not be with London but with globalization.