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New Report Highlights The Growth In Emerging Market Unicorns

The Horizons Tracker

The report reveals that while the majority of unicorns remain based in the United States, the emerging market is rapidly catching up, with China alone home to around 40% of the unicorns in existence today. For instance, Sao Paulo is the only ecosystem in the region listed in the top 30 locations in the 2020 Startup Genome report.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. It will most likely overcome cross-cultural barriers as it expands into new markets.

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How Innovation Boosts Profitability

The Horizons Tracker

The impact of innovation to improve the profitability of companies is something that has always been assumed, but nonetheless, it’s nice to have some tangible evidence to show it’s the case. They found that the most innovative firms achieved 1.95% higher growth in profitability each year than their less innovative peers.

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UNCTAD Report Argues For A New Approach To Tackling Financial Crisis

The Horizons Tracker

After emerging from the Covid pandemic, it was perhaps reasonable to assume that the global economy could relax, but the rapid, if uneven, recovery of 2021 is already a distant memory. The authors suggest that the rapid interest rate rises together with fiscal tightening threaten to turn a global slowdown into a recession.

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Report Reveals The Economic Consequences To Supply Chains From War In Ukraine

The Horizons Tracker

The invasion of Ukraine coupled with renewed Covid lockdowns in China sent supply chains reeling, inflation soaring, and pronounced fears of global food shortages. The report, which was timed to coincide with the WEF’s annual meeting in Davos, examines three scenarios for how supply chains could be affected by the war during 2023.

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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Recent research from the University of Oxford argued that decarbonizing the global economy would provide a $12 trillion boost by 2050 due to the improving efficiencies of renewable sources of energy. Spurring renewable innovation. Instead, it is participation in initiatives like Mission Innovation , which has done.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest.