Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Companies in the top one-fifth of profitability earn, in aggregate, about 70 times more economic profit (accounting profit less cost of capital) than those in the middle three-fifths combined, according to McKinsey’s database of 3,000 large, publicly listed, nonfinancial U.S. This underinvestment has a real cost to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. pace in the first quarter of 2010. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

For instance, shoe-manufacturer Guangzhou Constant has relocated its manufacturing facility to Yongzhou in Hunan, lured by tax breaks and by the prospect of wage costs that are between 15% and 20% lower. That's why Guangdong's population of migrant workers declined by 3% every year between 2005 and 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

This doesn't include the cost of the gifts others lavish on the newlyweds. They focus attention not only on the message but on the cost of getting out the message, which can undercut the message. A 2010 study showed that the public cost of supporting the monarchy was more than $55 million in 2009. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

We calculate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China and India will have consumed goods and services worth a total of $64 trillion. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million. Chinese consumers will spend $41.5 trillion over this period, with annual expenditures rising from $2.0

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

trillion to the GDP, or about one-fifth of the nation's total gross domestic product. Implement smart health care reforms: The retail industry is highly sensitive to rising labor costs and federal health coverage mandates will force many retailers to downsize their workforce. Retail contributes $2.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

And it's just the latest in a series of Chinese commitments, which include the following: July 2010: 5 trillion yuan , or $800 billion, alternative energy plan over 10 years (this is like the part of the U.S. The costs of inaction are rising, which brings me to. stimulus plan that funded clean tech, but times 10). One of Sen.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). GDP grew by 1.9% This is not particularly surprising for a country known for powerful unions and a strong attachment to social rights.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective. The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. Brazil’s Beef Industry. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% based multinationals are shifting jobs to lower-cost labor in foreign subsidiaries, the trends in employment warrant special attention. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7% capital investment, shipping 71.1%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The company is now one of the largest mobile cash-transaction companies in the world — roughly 20% of the country's GDP passes through it. Kenya's M-Pesa , for example, allows customers to withdraw and deposit money via text message. The growth doesn't stop there. There are other opportunities for innovation as well.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. But perhaps the costs have risen, too.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. states could add more than 10%, and the nation’s 50 largest cities could add between 6% and 13% of GDP. trillion GDP opportunity would require the creation of 6.4 trillion in value per year, and it isn’t included in GDP.)

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP. Furthermore, looking at the data, it is difficult to make the case that U.S. Further, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

On August 5, 2010, a mine collapsed in Chile’s Atacama Desert, trapping 33 miners more than 2,000 feet underground. An estimated $12 trillion a year , approximately 16% of global GDP , is spent on capital projects globally. When was the last time a cost or design benchmark was challenged? Missing the forest for the trees.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

Ignoring the very real costs of trade and globalization is not only counterproductive but indefensible. According to our analysis , trade accounted for only 20% of net manufacturing job losses in the United States between 2000 and 2010. That doesn’t mean we should keep doing the same old things.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% in 2000 to 2.0% in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% respectively. million by 2020.

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Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

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. Burton and Intermountain Health Care, for example, began working with electronic data in the mid-1970s, long before runaway costs prompted any national discussion of health care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Shift the emphasis from investment and exports to domestic consumption: Among the three components of the GDP equation, China used to follow a Soviet style investment-driven policy and take full use of its low labor cost to become the “world’s factory.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s true of GDP. Greenspan asked me to check that, and the actual line from the article was pretty close: “Asked in 2010 about those who warned that housing prices would crash, he responded, ‘Right. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. It didn’t happen.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The UK is also disproportionately influential in Europe’s digital industry. billion as compared to $4.4 Decision-Making Will Be Held Hostage to Uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

At today's price of $100 per barrel, this change would save over $100 billion a year in energy costs — a worthy prize. The challenge is that range is generally limited to 40 miles on an eight-hour charge and batteries cost more than $10,000 per car. Taking this position might be good politics — but it's not good policy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. That’s a more than a hundredfold escalation in labor costs, plus higher materials costs — and horrible quality. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

People on the left love Lindert's conclusion , contained in this shorter working paper , that the rise in spending (and accompanying taxation) has not carried with it the costs predicted by neoclassical economic theories such as the ones wielded by Lucas. in 2010, government spending's share of GDP in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years. There's also a payroll tax holiday included in that 2010 deal, which was always supposed to be temporary. borrowing costs if Congress fails to raise it in time and the Treasury has to default. Thanks to the Byrd rule, that meant the cuts were only valid for 10 years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It is hard to overstate the sheer economic cost of the 2008 financial crisis. The combination of increased expenditures and decreased revenues resulting from the crisis from 2008 to 2010 is likely to cost the United States government well over $2 trillion , more than twice the cost of the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan.

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Crisis Politics Cost Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Means-tested programs that help the poor but exclude the middle may keep costs and tax rates lower, but they are a recipe for class conflict. Both parties have supported free-trade deals because of the net positive GDP gains, overlooking the blue-collar workers who lost work as jobs left for Mexico or Vietnam. Example: 28.3%

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