Benchmarking Globalization to Boost Business Connections

Though global connectedness, which correlates with global growth, appears to be recovering since the global economic crisis, there is still a long way to go, as the latest DHL Global Connectedness Index reveals. Global strategist and professor Pankaj Ghemawat and research scholar Steven A. Altman unpack the findings of their comprehensive study that measures the depth, breadth and directions of trade, capital, information and people flows between countries. They discuss some of the implications for multinationals, analyze the results for Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States, and suggest how globalization might evolve going forward.