Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. The United States, for example, has a serious problem with its trade deficit which needs to be solved.

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Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

They know how to contemplate 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year programs and achieve year-on-year GDP growth that averages no less than 8 percent. Life expectancy has grown from forty-seven years for a Chinese baby born in 1960 to seventy-three years for one born in 2009. China thinks in long-term timeframes.

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GDP Class Budgeting Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The researchers drew on survey data from 1996 to 2009 asking Swedish citizens whether the Swedish economy had improved from 12 months prior, as well as whether they believed it would improve in the 12 months ahead. One need only look to diverging GDP and wage data to grasp this point.)

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Entrepreneur GDP Education Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Georgiou’s crime was that back in 2009, he strictly applied globally accepted international rules in reporting the Greek government’s budget deficit, which had the effect of increasing it by just under 3% to a whopping 15% of GDP. You would be wrong. Calculating this debt in “present” (i.e.,

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GDP Maturity Crisis Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Back in January 2009 European officials assumed that the crisis was purely a U.S. This assumption could not have been farther from the truth; a recession started in Europe in the first quarter of 2009, just a couple of months after it hit the U.S. But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP.

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Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

I did a quick search on Factiva to verify this impression: 495 mentions of the phrase "global imbalances" in the first three months of 2009; 175 mentions in the first three months of this year. of GDP in 2011. of GDP in 2011. traded blogging for a job in the Obama administration in 2009 and hasn't been heard from since.

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GDP Globalization Finance Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

US annual GDP is just over $15 trillion. trillion) over ten years is just over seven percent of one year's GDP. But the actual cut for 2013 is a tenth of that figure, less than one percent of GDP, each year, over ten years, which is far less dramatic. The media tends to downplay that these cuts would be spread over ten years.

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GDP Politics Budgeting Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

For capital flows, the historical data suggest that policymakers should start paying attention when the absolute values of capital accounts add up to 3% of GDP and start getting worried when they exceed 4%. in 2009, before rising to 4.2% in 2009, before rising to 4.2% in 2008 to 3.9% in 2010 with further increases forecast.

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Globalization GDP Crisis Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. Then shocks — the 2008-2009 global crisis, the revelation that Greece had disguised its debt and deficit — sent foreign finance for the exits.

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GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF). of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. an estimated $100 billion per year. There are three routes to getting there: 1.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Crude supply did not budge when oil prices tripled from 2004 to 2008, but global demand remained firm, shrugging off a recessionary dip in 2009. We have ample historical evidence that when petroleum expenditures reach 5% of GDP, recession typically follows. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% Annual energy expenditures rose from 6.2%

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The fact is, the ratio was less than 9% in 2009 and, while it may be pushed higher by merger waves, has never reached 20%.

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% GDP while undertaking 40.9% And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. private-sector jobs and produced 28.7%

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Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." And that focus filters down to companies.

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

A 2010 study showed that the public cost of supporting the monarchy was more than $55 million in 2009. GDP or around $50 billion. Royal wedding excitement has been accompanied by calls to abolish the monarchy as a drain on a cash-strapped nation. The royal wedding can also be watched as a cautionary tale.

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CEO Apparel GDP Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Rachman in 2009 : “Big is beautiful again.”) million people with a GDP per capita ranking between Finland’s and Belgium’s (that’s counting offshore oil revenue), could be an economic success. As Gideon Rachman put it in the FT in 2007 : This is the age of the small state. Things have gotten a little more complicated since then.

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Offshoring Politics Globalization GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. A study found that 18% of school age girls in Rwanda, for instance, miss school because menstrual pads are too expensive.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

Contractionary policies may create a self-reinforcing spiral of decline that increases the debt-to-GDP ratio. Paul Krugman, the least equivocal voice in the crisis, famously pointed out in 2009 what he saw as the root cause of the demise of economics. An irony surfaces here. ” This is a lesson worth remembering.

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Crisis Policies Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Second, R&D expenditures are growing faster than GDP, especially in manufacturing. multinationals has trended upward, but only slightly over the most recent 10-year period (data is available only through 2009). In the first place, about 70% of all R&D done by private U.S. The R&D performed by foreign affiliates of U.S. About 15.7%

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Outsourcing Chief Technology Officer Engineering GDP 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP. percent in the first quarter of 2009 alone. Before the crisis, both countries had respectable debt profiles. For a sense of scale, the national ouput of Ireland in 2007 was 155 billion euros.

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Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. In 2016, the U.S.

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Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. Why Russia is still attractive. The old approach to Russia won’t work.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

In 2009, over two-thirds of all ecommerce payments in China were cash on delivery. Developing countries have the largest tax gaps, with their shadow economies as large as 30%-44% of GDP. For some countries, the transition has been very rapid and at a scale that is without precedent.

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Banking Cost Policies Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

A study of 25,000 publicly traded companies from 1950 to 2009 found that, on average, they lasted around 15 years, or not even through one generation. In this brave new world, public companies are losing their dominance : their share of America’s GDP, workforce, and assets has fallen by 50% over the last quarter of the 20th century.

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Long-term Short-term Reputation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Those in Clinton’s camp include the venerable Aspen Institute, which produced a 2009 call to arms arguing that corporations’ short-term objectives corrode the “foundation of the American free enterprise system.” years in 2009. ” A Review of Relevant Studies. years in 2002 to 7.2 years in 2014.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6% of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. But the impact of the industry on Brazil’s natural resources — and global GHG emissions — has been intense.

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Over recent years, governments too have increasingly begun to realize that focusing on GDP growth alone does not necessarily lead to improvements in living standards of their citizens. Put simply, what’s good for increasing GDP may not be good for the long-term betterment of society. Bangladesh overtakes India.

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Globalization GDP Hammer Maslow 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

GDP over the past decade might well have grown by an additional $1 trillion if the whole economy had performed at the level our long-term stalwarts delivered — and generated more than five million additional jobs over this period. percentage points of GDP growth per year). We calculate that U.S.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

The bailout was small compared to the sums the Troika gave Greece (€240 billion in two rounds), Spain (€100 billion), and Ireland (€85 billion), and the latter was a significant percentage of Cyprus’ GDP of €17.7 billion in 2012. in 2012; 5.4% in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% of its youth without jobs.

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GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In 2009, Michael Mandel, former Chief Economist for Businessweek and founder of a key economics blog , presented new research in a cover story called " The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S. " With fewer breakthrough products to sell overseas, exports as a share of GDP have stagnated at 11%, while imports have soared, forcing the U.S.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

And while mankind has treated gold as a store of value for millennia, bitcoins were first unleashed upon the world in January 2009, by a mysterious and pseudonymous cryptographer (or cryptographers). Since then the focus has moved on to inflation or, recently, nominal-GDP targeting. Bitcoins are made of otherwise valueless digits.

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Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

GDP, outcomes are worse than in other developed countries, and an attempt to fix the system through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) now sits in the hands of the U.S. It happened in the throes of the recent Great Recession when Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (better known as the bailout). Supreme Court.

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Health Care Incentives Quality Cost 12

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

of GDP – The Growing Market for International Travel for Medical Care – CEOs Want Health-Care Reform (2009) – Can We Expect the Health Care System in the USA to Become Less Damaging to the Economy? We have to do better. Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9 trillion $9,255 per person and 17.4%

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Health Care System Deming Letter 40

Women on Business

MARCH 4, 2011

In order to meet the deficit reduction goal in the next decade, the President intends to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire after 2012 for families who make $250,000 or more, and to bring the estate exemption and estate tax to 2009 levels (back to a $3.5 trillion and 11% of GDP!!!), million estate exemption and 45% estate tax).

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GDP Budgeting Proposal Short-term 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2010

in 2008 and actually contracted in 2009. While countries like China and South Korea spend more than 2% of GDP, Colombia's S&T expenditure fell from 0.46% of GDP in 2005 to 0.39% in 2009. It's one of the fastest-growing countries in Latin America and boasts a red-hot stock market too.

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GDP Price Incentives Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

million and the level of Japan's GDP could increase by as much as 15 percent.". In fact, a solution exists: Japan's underutilized and under-leveraged women. According to a 2010 study by Goldman Sachs , "If Japan could close its gender employment gap.Japan's workforce could expand by 8.2 31%) and Germany (35%).

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Flextime Survey Education GDP 14