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The ruling, public advocates fear, could lead to trade sanctions against the United States or a watering down of the labels designed to tell consumers where their meat comes from.U.S. statement:
The United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk put a happy face on the WTO ruling, “which affirmed the United States’ right to adopt labeling requirements that provide information to American consumers about the meat they buy.”Read the entire article here.
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WSJ: Why is Clorox targeting growth in Latin America and the Middle East, instead of countries like China or Brazil?Learn more here.
Mr. Knauss: We think it is much less risky. The competitive intensity [in the BRIC countries] has ratcheted up many times what it was five to 10 years ago. When competitive intensity goes up, margins go down.We looked at our current countries in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru, where sales of bleach and other cleaners are growing 5% to 7% ...
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1. Customers can buy anytime and anywhere. After you are fast asleep and thinking that no more business can be generated, guess again. At their convenience, consumers can browse your site, discover new things and buy them. You wake up the next day, go to work and learn that ten percent of your total revenues were generated over night via e-commerce!Read the entire article: 6 Reasons to Love E-Commerce
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The school is also introducing a leadership development program—to be run by a retired West Point brigadier general—which Mr. Snyder says will focus on giving and receiving feedback and keeping a leader's ego in check.Learn more here.
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Blaming globalizationGood Reads: Globalization and the Glass Half Full
The world has had economic downturns before, but what makes this one different goes beyond mere numbers on a balance sheet. Its roots are found in the growing doubts that people are having about our increasingly globalized world ...
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Inevitably, as the number of people speaking English increases, so do the sales of novels in English. But not enormously. The surprise is that increased knowledge of English has also brought a much more marked increase in sales of literature written in English but read in translation in the local language. When you learn a language you don’t just pick up a means of communication, you buy into a culture, you get interested.Read the entire piece: Most Favored Nations
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Growth in Brazil, Russia, India, and China is expected to slow considerably in 2012, dampening an already weak global economy.Read the entire article: Is the Show Over for the BRIC Economies?
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New worldwide research by Satmetrix, the Net Promoter software company, has found that the majority of organizations of all sizes across B2C and B2B are blind to the opportunities and threats of social media.Study: Global Businesses Are Anti-Social in a Social Media Age (CRM Magazine)
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Ikea, the Swedish furniture giant hires translator to vet merchandise as product names run afoul of Thailand’s conservative mores. Their story is just the latest example of the perils of names in a globalized economy.Read the entire article here.
The company, which launched its fifth-largest superstore in Bangkok last year, realized that terms like Jättebra, for a plant pot, can echo a crude Thai term for sex.
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The United States is the second greatest tourist draw in the world, with 60-million-plus visitors in 2010 alone (France, number one, attracted almost 80 million). Flipping through a few of the many English-language tourist guides provides a fascinating, if non-scientific and narrow, window into how people from the outside world perceive America, Americans, and the surprises and pitfalls of spending time here.The comments are telling and really crack me up.
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From the applications received, they will select 30 companies to attend the Techie Unconference on July 18, 2012. The Unconference will be held at the Shaker LaunchHouse facility, and will be an opportunity to pitch to mentors, venture capitalists and the LaunchHouse team.LaunchHouse will then select 10 teams from the 30 who attend the Unconference. These teams will participate in the twelve-week LaunchHouse Accelerator program and will receive U.S. $25,000.
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Levitt is sometimes credited with coining the term “globalization” in a 1983 article, “The Globalization of Markets." Although the term had undoubtedly been in use before—The New York Times said it was used in other senses “at least as early as 1944”—it was Levitt who first popularized (marketed?) it as referring to the spread of corporations around the globe.Related articles:
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Getting comfortable with slang is essential for building relationships and communicating at work. For a manager, relying on formal English can create distance. "Without [knowing] idioms, they look at you and say, 'Oh my God, who is this woman?' " says Vladimira Gueren, 51, a former chief financial officer in Palm Coast, Fla., who moved from the Czech Republic almost four years ago.Read the entire article here.
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Think Coca-Cola, PayPal and iPad, and you immediately think of a company, product, brand, experience, reputation, solution and public goodwill.The article below discusses what a trademark is, how to select a trademark, how to establish rights to a trademark and where to turn for additional help.
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The Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2012 extends the Bank's authority through 2014 and ultimately increases its portfolio cap to $140 billion. This provides much-needed certainty and predictability to U.S. exporters and their workers.Learn more here.
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... his job is not to win over the local population. His job is to take Guangzhou to the world and he has already started.Read the entire article here.
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Starr Green’s lesson plans and helpful hints on the art of learning French and Spanish go way beyond her home ground at Morley’s Bruntcliffe High School – thanks to a website she appears on and which is run by the Times Educational Supplement.Learn more: Leeds teacher's going global with her language lessons
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The event celebrated technology development in its most positive context—using minimal resources and maximum brainpower to create outside- the-box solutions in response to interesting problems.The six global winners are as follows:
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The name 'Sanlitun Village' is taken from the small scale urban communities based around various culture and art scenes that spontaneously develop in cities across the world. Here in the Village, we wanted to create a community that places emphasis on 'people': people eating, drinking, shopping, performing, discovering, and creating, ending up with an experience that is influenced from everywhere, yet feels like nowhere else.Related post: Pizza in Sanlitun: A Story
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advertising research; marketing research; media, content and technology research; loyalty, quality and customer relationship management research; opinion polls and social research; and survey management, data collection and delivery.Learn more about Ipsos here.
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The legislation would reauthorize the bank, whose charter was set to expire at the end of May, through September 2014 and raise the bank's lending cap from $100 billion to $140 billion to provide credit and loan guarantees to support the purchase of U.S. exports abroad.Learn more here.
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We imagine innovation as a trickle-down process. Companies in places such as the United States, Europe, and Japan deploy sophisticated technology to produce premium products for developed markets. Then they strip out some features, maybe substitute cheaper materials and eliminate most options, and ship their diminished creations to presumably less-demanding customers in Africa, Asia, and South America.Authors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble describe the developing world as a fertile research and development lab for companies in any market in their new book, Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press).
But the days of rich countries' hegemony over innovation may be numbered.
Key statement in the article: When entrepreneurs see an opportunity, they should partner. There are lots of people in developing countries looking for alliances of this sort.
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As the process of bringing products to market involves an increasingly global web of commerce, managers gunning for the C-suite should be ready to complete multiple stints abroad. Such double- and triple-dipping workers are in high demand, because time spent overseas develops their ability to manage complex, interconnected operations—skills that just can't be developed back at headquarters or in one brief foreign assignment, recruiters and human-resources executives say.Read the entire article here.
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In addition to World Trade Month events and activities across the country, this month the Commerce Department will present the 50th Annual President’s “E” Award that will recognize dozens of U.S. companies for the significant contributions they have made in increasing American exports and creating jobs. Other activities will include the implementation of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, which goes into effect on May 15, and local World Trade Week (May 20-26) celebrations from New York to Los Angeles. ~ More info: http://www.trade.gov/For additional help, revisit:
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Literacy in the Gulf States is 98%, according to Unesco. But that literacy is increasingly in English, not Arabic.Read the entire article here.
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We have our designs pirated and mass produced by competitors in China (and constantly have to design ahead of the curve or seek markets that want custom/artisanal work).Visit: Kink Engineering
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We have entered what I like to call a "G-Zero" world: one in which no single nation (not even the U.S.) or alliance of governments (certainly not the G-7 or G-20) possesses the political and economic muscle to drive an international agenda. In this new decentralized global order, growth isn't enough. A country also must have resilience—the power to pivot.
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