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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. When it comes to risk in Mexico, companies are paying attention to the fraught NAFTA negotiations, but not the domestic politics that could damage business plans far sooner than any NAFTA changes.

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it. The tight focus on generating returns drove many gains.