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Corporate Espionage

Foreign economic collection and industrial espionage against the United States represent significant and growing threats to the nation’s prosperity and security. Cyberspace—where most business activity and development of new ideas now takes place—amplifies these threats by making it possible for malicious actors, whether they are corrupted insiders or foreign intelligence services (FIS), to quickly steal and transfer massive quantities of data while remaining anonymous and hard to detect.

The great rebalancing

Posted with permission from McKinsey Quarterly The great rebalancing As the center of economic growth shifts from developed to developing countries, global companies should focus on innovation to win in low-cost, high-growth countries. Their survival elsewhere may depend on it.…

Understanding social media in China

The world’s largest social-media market is vastly different from its counterpart in the West. Yet the ingredients of a winning strategy are familiar. Reprinted with permission from McKinsey Quarterly No Facebook. No Twitter. No YouTube. Listing the companies that don’t have…

Bangladesh: The next hot spot in apparel sourcing?

Reprinted with permission from McKinsey Quarterly. Lower costs are an advantage for the country’s ready-made-garment industry, but challenges remain. In 2010, China dominated European and US markets for ready-made garments, accounting for about 40 percent of the import volume in each…

Language Concentration in USA

    Languages spoken at home are not evenly distributed throughout the nation. Some areas have high percentages of speakers of non-English languages, while others have lower levels. The percentage of people who spoke a language other than English at…

What’s ahead for banking in Eastern Europe

Reprinted with permission from McKinsey Global Institute. Banks in Eastern Europe have had a roller coaster ride over the past decade.1 After dizzying growth between 2000 and 2007, when shares in the region’s top financial institutions performed better than those of…