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Is Entrepreneurship As Popular As We Think?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, in the United States, data reveals that entrepreneurship has declined by around half between 1978 and 2011, with this especially pronounced among the share of young firms, as employment at young firms fell from nearly half of the workforce in the 1980s to just 39% by 2006. in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

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Where Does Your Nation Rank on Wellbeing?

Harvard Business Review

If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. In 2006 when the first Prosperity Index was published, this was a surprising exercise. Doing so, however, produces insights on vital questions the answers to which are not yet (and may never be) reflected in GDP.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

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The (Postponed) End of the Dollar Era

Harvard Business Review

current account deficit, which measures the gap between what the country takes in from export income, investment income, and cash transfers and what it pays out, peaked at nearly 6% of GDP in 2006 and was down to 3.1% of GDP in 2011. Part of the explanation for the reduced attention is reduced imbalances: The U.S. Still, 3.1%

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An Economic Explanation for Putin’s Recklessness

Harvard Business Review

Fair’s model has its critics , but it seems reasonable to posit that a decade of rapid income growth (peaking at almost 26% a year in 2006) left Putin with a big reservoir of good will among the Russian people. GDP growth of only 1.3% in 2013 even led to talk of a “growth crisis” for the Russian economy.

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Does Work Make You Happy? Evidence from the World Happiness Report

Harvard Business Review

We draw largely upon the Gallup World Poll , which has been surveying people in over 150 countries around the world since 2006. GDP is masking deeper issues. The available categories cover many kinds of jobs, including being a business owner, office worker, or manager, and working in farming, construction, mining, or transport.

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Health Reform Lessons from Mexico

Harvard Business Review

This system has reorganized and increased public funding by a full percentage point of GDP in order to provide universal health insurance, including the 50 million Mexicans, most of them poor, who had been excluded from formal social insurance schemes. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.