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Capturing the Asian opportunity
Economic recovery in China, India, and elsewhere in the region could be the strongest source of sustained global growth for years to come.
In September 2008, the global financial crisis hit Asia like a tidal wave, flooding in from the U.S. and Europe. Within weeks, Asian GDP growth rates began to tumble: China’s annual growth rate [...]
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Capturing the Asian opportunity
Economic recovery in China, India, and elsewhere in the region could be the strongest source of sustained global growth for years to come.
In September 2008, the global financial crisis hit Asia like a tidal wave, flooding in from the U.S. and Europe. Within weeks, Asian GDP growth rates began to tumble: China’s annual growth rate [...]
China’s rebalancing act: how much do consumers stand to gain?
After a tough grind through the Year of the Ox, it’s easy to see why China is looking forward to the beginning of the Year of the Tiger in February. Thanks in large part to the Chinese government’s ability to keep the world’s third-largest economy moving over the past 12 months with a massive, two-year, [...]
Competing through organizational agility
Three distinct types of agility—strategic, portfolio, and operational—help companies compete. Each of them has its own sources and dangers.
Market turbulence did not begin with the fall of Lehman Brothers, and it will not end when the global economy recovers.1 Indeed, a variety of academic studies—using measures such as stock price volatility, the mortality of firms, [...]
Why winning the wallets of China’s consumers is harder than you think
Although they often behave like the new global citizens, China’s modern consumers have many unique traits that aren’t immediately obvious to marketers. New research into buying habits and brand preferences shows the risks of misreading this complex and fast-changing market.
In 1995, executives at a major US appliance manufacturer thought they had China all figured out. [...]
Increasing Supplier-Driven Innovation
When customers collaborate with suppliers they can build trust, reduce relational stress, and increase innovation-related activities.
More than 50 years ago, management guru Peter Drucker identified innovation as one of the basic ways in which a business builds and maintains a competitive position in the marketplace.1 It wasn’t until recently, however, that companies not only established [...]
A major new study involving some 3,500 executives has highlighted the key skills that innovative and creative entrepreneurs need to develop. The six-year-long research into disruptive innovation by INSEAD professor Hal Gregersen, Jeffrey Dyer of Brigham Young University and Clayton Christensen of Harvard, outlines five ‘discovery’ skills you need. But, says Gregersen, you don’t have [...]
The lessons of history suggest that if we want to reduce poverty in emerging markets, regulation reform and business success are prerequisites, not outcomes.
In the history of economic success, no two countries have ever followed identical paths. But there is a universal pattern nonetheless: Nations rise out of poverty when elements of a thriving business [...]
The problem isn’t that they are poorly designed. The problem is that they exist.
These days, it seems, there is no shortage of recommendations for fixing the way bonuses are paid to executives at big public companies.
Well, I have my own recommendation: Scrap the whole thing. Don’t pay any bonuses. Nothing.
This may sound extreme. But when [...]
Micro Insurance: A Safety Net With Too Many Holes?
Developing and developed countries may have a lot more in common these days than many people think. Take health care. As the U.S. Congress continues to debate President Obama’s controversial national health care plan, an innovative program similarly aiming to improve the lives of the poor is being launched on the other side of the [...]
How Important Is the Illicit Economy?
Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy, has spent more than a decade studying the illicit economy that moves everything from drugs and guns to pirated movies and human body parts around the world. In the book, Illicit, he outlines what amount to a shadow system of global business and trade.
Q: In Illicit, you write that [...]
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