May 2012 ARTICLE PREVIEW To read the full article: Sign in or Register for free. HBR Subscribers activate your free archive access » http://hbr.org/2012/05/global-business-speaks-english/ar/1 Global Business Speaks English by Tsedal Neeley Ready or not‚ English is now the global language of business. More and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language—Airbus‚ Daimler-Chrysler‚ Fast Retailing‚ Nokia‚ Renault‚ Samsung‚ SAP‚ Technicolor‚ and Microsoft in
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Population Bulletin BY J A S O N B R E M N E R ‚ A S H L E Y F R O S T‚ C A R L H A U B ‚ M A R K M AT H E R ‚ K A R I N R I N G H E I M ‚ A N D E R I C Z U E H L K E WORLD POPULATION HIGHLIGHTS: KEY FINDINGS FROM PRB’S 2010 WORLD POPULATION DATA SHEET Vol. 65‚ No. 2 JULY 2010 www.prb.org Population Reference Bureau Population Reference Bureau The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population‚ health‚ and the environment‚ and empowers them to
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© 2008 International Monetary Fund February 2008 IMF Country Report No. 08/71 Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Selected Issues This Selected Issues paper for Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with the member country. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed on January 30‚ 2008. The views expressed in this document are those of the staff team and
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Vol. XVI‚ No. 2 APRIL-JUNE 1998 Education and globalization A ccording to the definition given by Jacques Hallak during the conference on “Educational Reconstruction and Transformation of Education. Challenges for the 21st Century”‚ globalization is a combination of much freer trade in goods and services combined with free capital movements. The phenomenon dates far back in history with the development of international trade. However‚ for the past few years‚ we have observed a high acceleration
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The African Union: Providing Peace in Africa? A case study of the African Mission in Burundi Dr Annemarie Peen Rodt Department of Politics‚ Languages and International Studies University of Bath‚ 1 West North‚ Bath BA2 7AY‚ United Kingdom Email: apr20@bath.ac.uk International Studies Association Annual Convention 16-19 March 2011. Montreal‚ Canada. This is a first draft. Please do not quote without consulting the author. Comments and questions are more than welcome. Abstract The African Union
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Hong Kong Special Administrative Region‚ China‚ March 2010 (Elvin Wyly). Hong Kong is one of the world’s most highly urbanized societies‚ and one of the wealthiest. Yet urbanization does not always deliver prosperity: more than a billion of the world’s urban people live in severe poverty in the slums of fast-growing “megacities.” Contemporary Urbanization and Global City-Systems Urban Studies 200‚ Cities September 29‚ 2012 Elvin Wyly A World of Urbanization ...In Wealthy Countries (the Global North)
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• What is global marketing? How does it differ from “regular” marketing? Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating‚ communicating‚ and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. One difference between "regular" marketing and "global" marketing is the scope of activities. Marketing activities center on an organization’s efforts to satisfy customer wants and needs with products
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ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES THE DETERMINANTS AND IMPACTS OF INCOME DIVERSIFICATION IN RURAL ETHIOPIA: THE CASE OF COMMUNITTIES IN SOUTHERN NATIONS‚ NATIONALITIES‚ AND PEOPLES REGIONAL STATE A thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies of Addis Ababa University in Partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Economics (Economic Policy Analysis) BY DEMISSIE DAMITE Supervisor: Dr. Workneh Negatu ADDIS ABABA July 2003 i i
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The International Harmonisation Process of Accounting Standards Susanne Fritz Christina Lämmle II Avdelning‚ Institution Division‚ Department Datum Date 2003-01-20 Ekonomiska Institutionen 581 83 LINKÖPING Språk Language Svenska/Swedish X Engelska/English Rapporttyp Report category Licentiatavhandling Examensarbete ISBN C-uppsats X D-uppsats Serietitel och serienummer Title of series‚ numbering ISRN International Master Program Strategy and Culture 2003/3 ISSN Övrig rapport ____ URL
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Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 22‚ Number 2—Spring 2008 —Pages 53–72 Income‚ Health‚ and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll Angus Deaton T he great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being‚ such as economic status‚ health‚ family circumstances
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