Knowledge@Wharton has just released an 88-page publication, The Lauder Global Business Insight Report 2013: Building Blocks for the Global Economy.
These are the topics covered in the report: “The articles cover a wide variety of topics related to consumer markets around the world — including online dating and consumer credit in China, E-commerce in Brazil, retail chains in Russia, and tourism in Colombia — showing how advances in technology and traditional market forces blend together to produce new opportunities for companies. The transformation of more established industries in the wake of the financial crisis is another topic that is driving innovation. German beer companies, Colombian coffee firms, and French wineries are analyzed with a view to identifying the prospects for global growth in well-established product categories. People and human resources are vital components of the knowledge-based global economy of the 21st century. Articles on education in Brazil, Colombia and India report on new institutional arrangements and private initiatives in this area. Entrepreneurship and managerial careers are the topics of articles that cover new developments in high-income markets such as France and Japan along with those in emerging economies such as Colombia and China. In addition, the report offers an in-depth look at silicon wafers and semiconductors in the Gulf. Finally, this year’s report analyzes private equity in Brazil and Colombia, two intriguing new markets, and explores the issue of water scarcity, one of the world’s biggest challenges in the coming decades.
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