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The U.S. Startup Economy Is in Both Better and Worse Shape than We Thought

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The chart above shows where cities fall according to Guzman and Stern’s measure of average startup quality between 2001 and 2003 — more on that in a moment — and compares that to their GDP growth from 2003–2014. in GDP 11 years in the future,” the authors report.

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Recessions Push People to Buy Cheap Things, Which Just Makes Everything Worse

Harvard Business Review

The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates. the availability of lower quality, inexpensive goods produced in developing countries has increased over time.

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Would You Rather Have Brazil’s Economic Problems or America’s?

Harvard Business Review

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. as befits an already very developed, very rich economy. based companies at the forefront of most interesting digital developments. births per woman in 1980 to 1.8

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

And the fact that these markets are "emerging" presents more limitations, including the harsh reality of low spending power: GDP per capita in India is $3,900 and in Indonesia is $5,000 (compared to the US at $49,800). A hybrid approach has to be developed — one that takes good elements from the U.S. Once a copycat succeeds, U.S.

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Do You Really Want to Bet Against China?

Harvard Business Review

And after that, when China and India’s spectacular growth in the first decade of the new millennium proved Rohwer right in spades, he wasn’t around to say I told you so because he’d died (in a sailing accident) in 2001. With only six years to go and Asia still quite a few trillions of GDP dollars behind , that seems like a stretch.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index.