Safely reducing debt and clearing the way for economic growth in the aftermath of the global credit bubble will take many years and involve difficult choices, as MGI's 2010 report showed. Two years later, major economies have only just begun deleveraging. In only three of the largest mature economies-the United States, Australia, and South Korea- has the ratio of total debt relative to GDP fallen. The private sector leads in debt reduction, and government debt has continued to rise, due to recession. However, history shows that, under the right conditions, private-sector deleveraging leads to renewed economic growth and then public-sector debt reduction.

Clara Jiménez, Directora de Innovación de Accenture, es entrevistada por el Club de la Innovación.

La crisis financiera mundial que comenzó en 2008 ha marcado el inicio de una nueva época en la economía global. Durante los últimos años se han editado decenas de libros que tratan de explicar qué es lo que está pasando con nuestras economías y el cine no podría ser ajeno a esta corriente. A continuación detallamos once de los mejores documentales realizados sobre la crisis financiera global y sus consecuencias. Si bien los planteamientos de algunos de estos films son discutibles, todos ellos tienen interés.

Featured Guest: Bob Pozen, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and author of the HBR article Extreme Productivity.

An interview with Gary Hamel, director of the Management Innovation eXchange and author of the HBR article First, Let's Fire All the Managers.

An interview with Heidi Grant Halvorson, motivational psychologist and author of Nine Things Successful People Do Differently.

Management thought leaders share their ideas on values in business.

El 25 de abril de 2010 Know Square pone en marcha el Proyecto Coach, con un único objetivo: tratar de ayudar a los profesionales y directivos que están yéndose a casa por la crisis económica, y que necesitan un "pequeño-gran empujón" para que regresen lo antes posible al mercado laboral, ya sea como emprendedores, como autónomos, en forma de cooperativas, como inversores, como asesores, o por qué no, considerando incluso un cambio de sector o país de residencia. En este video de TEDxSol, Juan Fernández-Aceytuno, artífice del Proyecto Coach, nos habla del mismo.

Companies will be spending more on their high performers in 2012 than they did in previous years as they continue to target resources towards those that deliver most to the bottom line, according to survey data from Mercer. However, a two tiered approach to pay is emerging with 12% of companies also stating that 25% of their staff will not get a pay rise in 2012 due to performance issues. The information comes from the 412 senior HR and Reward Specialists who attended Mercer's 2012 Compensation Planning in EMEA webinar. According to respondents, when asked if, in 2012, they would spend proportionately less, the same or more, on their top performers compared to an average performer than they had in previous years, 44% stated that they would spend more. Fifty percent said that they would spend the same while 5 percent said that they would spend less.

An interview with Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired and author of The Perfect Thing and Insanely Great.

László Halpern of the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences talks to Viv Davies about a forthcoming report on the impact of the crisis on European business. The report finds considerable heterogeneity across countries and firms - for example, exporters contracted more than non-exporters, while importers suffered less of a decline - and highlights the policy trade-off between the benefits of export-oriented strategies versus outsourcing.

China's economic expansion into Europe is gathering pace.

Tom Malone, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of the HBR article The Age of Hyperspecialization, explains why breaking jobs into tiny pieces yields better, faster, cheaper work-and greater flexibility for employees.

Teresa Amabile, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of The Progress Principle, explains the importance of small wins at work.

Traditional, compliance-focused approaches to risk management have created dangerous blind spots for businesses - financially and operationally - threatening not only growth, but basic survival. An integrated approach to managing risk and business performance can help companies systematically link risk and reward to avoid the pitfalls of operating in a volatile global economy.

El objetivo de este caso es describir cómo la ciudad de Madrid ha pasado a ser una de las ciudades más dinámicas y competitivas del mundo, analizando los factores clave de esta transformación.  Todo ello está explicado mediante gráficos interactivos, entrevistas con expertos, con algunos delegados del área de Gobierno del Ayuntamiento de Madrid y con el propio Alcalde de Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón.

For the past three years, Peru has enjoyed investment-grade rating status (‘BBB-'). And in 2010, we changed our outlook on the country to positive. On June 5, 2011, Peru elected a new president, Ollanta Humala, leaving many to speculate about how the new president's policies could affect the sovereign rating and the corporate credit ratings on Peruvian companies. In this podcast, Standard & Poor's Director Richard Francis and Senior Director Pablo Lutereau discuss the potential implications of the election on the markets and the ratings.