The Condensed October 2015 Issue
HBR IdeaCast
Harvard Business Review
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🗓️ 9 September 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:18.3 | wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm back with HBO Editor Amy Bernstein to talk about the October issue. |
| 0:38.9 | Amy, thank you so much for talking with us. |
| 0:40.6 | Always a pleasure. |
| 0:42.1 | So let's start with the big cover story in this issue. This is about |
| 0:45.8 | the future and how to survive it. Right. Only that? Yeah, it's a little topic that we're |
| 0:52.0 | tackling, but it's why we put it on the cover. |
| 0:56.0 | Let me start back in 1980 when global corporate profits started to grow, and we all know about |
| 1:01.2 | the long boom, Global corporate profits just took off and |
| 1:06.5 | at this point there are about a third of global GDP. The biggest beneficiaries of that growth, Western multinationals, so organizations operating |
| 1:16.4 | across Western Europe and North America, whose scale and drive for efficiency have helped them capture more than half of the total. |
| 1:26.0 | All that's about to come to an end. |
| 1:29.0 | Growth is slowing, costs are rising, new rivals from the tech sector and from emerging economies |
| 1:35.6 | or rewriting the playbook for everyone. |
| 1:38.6 | The authors of this article are three leaders from the McKinsey Global Institute. |
| 1:44.6 | They're Richard Dobbs, Tim Kohler, and Sri Ramaswami. |
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