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The Dos and Don’ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data

Harvard Business

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

The definitive 2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney. Below is our 2014 list of strategy consulting firms in Sydney. The firms on the 2014 list are: Nous Group. Services include Strategy Development, Operational Improvement, and Transaction Support. Source: Flickr ). Pacific Strategy Partners. Second Road.

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France Fesses Up: "Deficit in 2014 Much Higher than Expected", Budget Needs Revisions Yet Again

MishTalk

For example, please consider this Reuters September 2014 headline: France Breaks 2015 Deficit-Cutting Promise. in 2014, before dropping back to 4.3% Deficit Much Higher than Expected Le Monde reports Government Deficit in 2014 Much Higher than Expected. billion euros at the end of 2014, 4.3 of GDP this year and 3% next.

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Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Harvard Business

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S. .” This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

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The Best Strategic Leaders Balance Agility and Consistency

Harvard Business

I’ve recently been thinking about this with regard to how leaders can be more strategic, able to effectively execute the core of their business while remaining open to trends in the market and adapting to meet them. Markets demand that companies and people adapt and change constantly.

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Do Most Companies Even Try to Innovate Anymore?

Harvard Business

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest.

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Global Companies Need to Adopt Agile Pricing in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

One day in December 2014, Sergey, the Russia general manager for a multinational consumer goods company, was up early in the morning, watching the ruble’s value slide by the minute. of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015.