Global firms finance themselves through foreign subsidiaries, often shell companies in tax havens, which obscures their nationality in aggregate statistics. We associate the universe of traded securities with their issuer’s ultimate parent and restate bilateral investment positions to better reflect the true financial linkages connecting countries around the world.
This large increase in corporate bond holdings in emerging markets is even stronger in our “Full Nationality” treatment. This occurs because emerging market companies also own subsidiaries in the United States that issue bonds to U.S. investors. This dynamic is important for India and South Korea, which become much more prominent destinations for U.S. corporate bond investment under the “Full Nationality” treatment.
It's predicted that creative jobs will survive automation, but are we prepared?Â
We need to give the same emphasis to the principles of design that we give to the grammar of sentences, the same attention to color theory that we give to statistics, and teach kids to use video-editing software like we teach them to use spreadsheets. Success for the next generation of workers will come down to making an impact in ways robots cannot.
Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, it is time for companies
to act, not react.
By now, most C-suite executives have led their companies to digitize at least some part of their business to protect employees and serve customers facing mobility restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. As one CEO of a large tech company recently stated, “We are witnessing what will surely be remembered as a historic deployment of remote work and digital access to services across every domain.”
The ability to view and track your entire supply chain will make it stronger. But no company can do that alone.
With the right data, control towers can provide much of the information needed to understand what’s happening within the supply chain—across supplier tiers, during the conversion process and all the way into the customers’ hands.
The pandemic is fueling a wave of grief and loss that threatens to derail leaders and hurt organizations. Yet when addressed, grief can be a creative force that turns loss into inspiration.
Chances are, there’s a hidden attendee on your team’s Zoom meetings right now—a shadowy presence that’s holding back one or more of your colleagues, fostering self-doubt, causing them to dwell on failure, barriers, and everything that can go wrong.
THE JOURNEY TO AGILE: HOW COMPANIES CAN BECOME FASTER, MORE PRODUCTIVE, AND MORE RESPONSIVE
“Agile operating models are characterized by rapid learning and decision-making cycles. Here’s how organizations can use agile practices to transform their organizations.”
“The Wall Street Journal’s top story of the day is ... What’s interesting in this piece, from a former top U.S. military leader: Not one mention of China.” - Bryan Rich