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“Interpersonal Connectedness” One Factor in Metric to Replace GDP

Michael Lee Stallard

In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. Gertner writes about the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) developing a “key national indicators&# system that will be available online. Last year I spoke at the GAO’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

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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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

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. He told us: “In a Phillips Leadership Conclave in 2009, I listened to the presentation of Dr. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. In 2016, the U.S.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

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.