Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

There are a myriad of African business conferences, but even the largest of these pales in comparison to the scope and visibility of this event. In the race for opportunity and influence in Africa, no competitor looms larger than China, which has increased its total trade with Africa twenty-fold since 2001. How the U.S. Can the U.S.

Comparison 8

Comparison Policies Influence Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

He was speaking at an HBR Brasil conference on Brazilian competitiveness, and his message was pretty gloomy. since 2001 — which lends a helpful perspective to the often downbeat discussion over the economic future here: In fact, productivity growth has been outstripping wage growth in the U.S. The lines are flatter in the U.S.,

GDP 9

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% for United Technologies and 30% for Siemens. “We need to make some major changes with urgency and a depth of purpose. “Things will not stay the same at GE.”

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. Just look to the early days of Hewlett-Packard.

Management 8

Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. At a meeting shortly after in the director’s conference room back at Langley, we asked a roomful of top-ranking Agency officers, “Who here is in charge of finding Osama Bin Laden?”

Management 8

Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. One of the things that people don’t recognize is I made a speech in 2005, my last speech at the Jackson Hole conference , in which I was afraid to put a line in, so I put it in somewhat Fed-speak.

Long-term 9

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 9