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Normally, the Olympic Games are a positive force in marketing. Worldwide marketing expenditures increase as official sponsors and unofficial free-riders attach themselves to the Olympic logo, to particular sports, national teams or individual athletes. Global brands, in particular, see the Olympics and World Cup soccer as the two most important international sporting events; brand linkage […]

China celebrated the start of the Year of the Rabbit last week, and the country’s marketers are hoping that a surge in sales will kick off the new year. Demand in the Chinese economy soared by between 15% and 30% during the spring festival last year. In fact, some marketers of baijiu, the liquor that’s […]

The widely held notion of “Japan, Inc.” is exaggerated; there is no monolithic business-government link. Even so, the cooperation (without incorporation) between the large corporate combines and the government bureaucracy is impressive in its strength and focus on the common economic good—especially in view of its achievements worldwide. As the economic power of the United […]

Narendra Modi could kick-start India's economy - and position it to compete with China.

Editors’ Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation and email address. The room was already packed when Liu […]

The uncertainty and speculation are over. India’s Tata will get the Jaguar and the Land Rover Brands from Ford at a price estimated to be $2 billion. Though unrelated, only yesterday did another Tata group company, Tata Chemicals, announce the acquisition of another US-owned company, soda-ash producer General Chemical Industrial Products, for $1 billion. Coming […]

Indian inflation has just hit a 3-year high of 7.41%. We can take comfort from the fact that many of our neighbors are faced with 20%; even China has reported an 11-year high of 8.7%. Global trends are cited as the primary reason for the present situation. The IMF has reported that food prices in […]

Companies intent on wooing the Chinese consumer are ramping up their local research and development efforts. In the past five years, global fast-moving consumer goods companies have announced plans to pour over $5 billion into R&D in China. The case is compelling. The rationale includes the need to tailor products and develop original ones that […]

B V Krishnamurthy is the Director and Executive Vice-President of Alliance Business Academy in Bangalore, India. The Indian economy is likely to grow at 9% in 2008. The challenge is to aspire for and achieve a 12-to-14% growth that alone can take the country to an economic power status by 2020. Some of the imperatives […]

I am currently in New Delhi attending the India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF). This Summit, which marks the 25th year of WEF’s engagement in India, is themed “India’s Next Generation of Growth.” Last Saturday, I participated in a brainstorming session on how India can increase its workforce quality and employability […]

[For more, visit Tomorrow’s Smart Grid.] Creating a clean economy will not be easy. It will require sustained, consistent, and large-scale investment across many sectors, including transportation, building systems and appliances, energy generation, and of course the electric grid itself. We will need new, more intelligent software and hardware to manage the new demands on […]

In many countries, diversified business groups substitute for the institutions that support effective markets in capital, labor, and goods and services. Their capacity for doing this must be strengthened through restructuring, not destroyed through dismantling.

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed...

While Tesla and others focused on bigger batteries and faster charging, Nio invested in customer experience, infrastructure, and leasing programs.

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Things are heating up in the former "Singa-bore."

When the Gallup Organization applied Six Sigma principles to sales and service groups at several companies, it learned how much performance variation exists between seemingly similar work groups. Managing that variability can raise overall performance by orders of magnitude and can create organic growth.

No. That's my answer, and I'm sticking to it. That's been my answer since I read Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind back in 2005. Pink raised the idea that...

In the wake of uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, China briefly shut down LinkedIn access. Someone had apparently tried to organize an online discussion on a topic that offended the authorities. The social medium doesn’t matter. Don’t mess with the Great Firewall of China. But political unrest enabled by social media has virtually all […]