Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Personal Freedom (individual freedom and social tolerance). Social Capital (social cohesion and engagement, as well as community and family networks). By now there has been a global shift toward the view that national success should and can be measured more meaningfully. Here, the 2012 Index sheds light.

Social Capital 17

Social Capital GDP Human Capital Education 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Unhindered, they quickly amassed valuable social capital through an array of personal and professional relationships, as well as local intelligence and insights.

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

A transport company like TNT is a typical beneficiary of globalization. We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. During my time as CEO of TNT N.V. There is no doubt we benefited from this.

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Finally, when you are at the conglomerate stage, they relate to social capital, as you move talent across internal boundaries and leverage personal relations with politicians, government officials, investors and other external parties who can greatly facilitate or obstruct your plans–not necessarily with the greater good in mind.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The global financial crisis that continues to send shock waves across the world unfortunately represents the ugly face of capitalism today. ITC decided to measure its own performance in terms of its contribution to creating economic, environmental, and social capital through innovations that would be embedded in its business strategy.

Long-term 12

Long-term Business Model Innovation Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Called simply "The Prosperity Index," it is the world's only global assessment of prosperity that integrates measures of both financial income and nonfinancial wellbeing—in all, reflecting 93 dimensions of performance. It is the first global index to measure countries based on both wealth and wellbeing.

GDP 10

GDP Social Capital Globalization Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

When we look at global averages, we see that self-employment is generally associated with lower levels of happiness as compared to being a full-time employee. The difference in the global results between job satisfaction and employee engagement may partially be attributable to measurement issues. Self-employment is complicated.

Report 14

Report Transportation Stress Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. Marketers have always understood how great messaging contributes to the success of new products, services, and brands. Some eventually cross over to become full-time employees.

Creativity 8

Creativity Storytelling Social Capital Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

That community business ideal is now increasingly possible — and available — on a much broader, even global basis and many firms are striving to make this transition. Here are some guidelines to help keep you on the right side of the social business street. Beware of Inserting Market Norms into Social Situations.

Guidelines 8

Guidelines Banking Discount Open-book 8

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s not all negative however, as the annual Prosperity Index from the Legatum Institute suggests that the last decade has seen economies actually become more open, with every region of the world showing improvements, especially in areas such as market access and infrastructure. ” Stagnating institutions.

Report 84

Report Globalization Social Capital Education 84

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

It's becoming ever clearer that entrepreneurship is the answer to the vexing economic questions facing Africa today: job creation, capital formation, skills acquisition, taxation-based self-sufficiency, quality of governance-demand, and of course social inclusion. But how has it actually evolved in Africa?

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. But we’re a global company. But it would take a lot of social capital.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Gordon Brown said during the campaign that Scotland’s fight should not be with London but with globalization. Scotland has been trying to compete in the global economy with one arm tied behind its back. Globalization has reduced the effective size of countries, with external forces limiting the degree of domestic policy autonomy.

Consensus 10

Consensus Globalization Politics Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Much of continental Europe is convulsed with similar combinations of disaffection , protectionism , and, in some cases, nationalism and even racism that have morphed into a more-or-less generalized anger against globalization. Pro-globalizers need to do a better job of making their case. In the U.S., distributors, retailers, and so on.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8