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Turkey Badly Needs a Long-Term Plan for Syrian Refugees

Harvard Business Review

It did not include a vision for long-term integration; nobody in Turkey foresaw the duration and severity of Syria’s humanitarian crisis. A long-term framework for integrating Syrian refugees is a pressing domestic policy to head off tensions like these.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

Icahn later reduced his buyback request to $50 billion, and in April 2014 Apple’s board approved a $30 billion program to be carried out by repurchasing its shares on the open market — either by just buying shares outright or doing it indirectly via accelerated share repurchases. Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits.

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How the Apple/FBI Fight Risks the Whole U.S. Tech Industry

Harvard Business Review

To consider the impact this is having on tech firms, it’s critical to understand the change the internet has had on the world of business, taking the addressable market for any one product or service from a handful of localities through to the entire planet. Historically, the size of the market that mattered was the domestic market.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

In addition to the ones regularly in the news, I have argued earlier in HBR that there is a fundamental crisis unfolding over the longer term: the continent is suffering from a “digital recession” – a loss of momentum in its evolution toward a digital economy. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight.