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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Businesses are beginning to realize that data holds the key to greater efficiency and profits. Getting our goods from one location to another is just really, really expensive.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software

Beyond GDP, How the World's Economies Stack Up

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

These days, many people agree that, just as the full measure of a man can't be taken by his banker, the full measure of a nation isn't reflected in its GDP. We write about all this in our forthcoming book, Standing on the Sun, but since our manuscript was copyedited in October, we went to press with 2010 numbers.

GDP

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. International migration is on the rise.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

GDP

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees. The Japanese employees in the Tokyo headquarters communicated in Japanese, the Americans in the U.S. Translators were employed for cross-border communications. ” 5.

Succession

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Where Does Your Nation Rank on Wellbeing?

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. Doing so, however, produces insights on vital questions the answers to which are not yet (and may never be) reflected in GDP. Entrepreneurship & Opportunity (entrepreneurial environment, innovative activity, and access to opportunity).

Social Capital

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China, America, and Copycat Economics

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.

GDP

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The Fallacy of the "China Defense"

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. Even putting aside the literally trillions available through energy efficiency , there's a vast upside from creating new industries.

GDP

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The Future of Retail Depends on Today's Policy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

trillion to the GDP, or about one-fifth of the nation's total gross domestic product. NRF is working to fix or repeal the provisions in the 2010 health care reform law that are hostile to the future of the retail industry. Retail contributes $2.5

Retail

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The Middle East Could Be a Cradle of Innovation

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.

Innovation

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. Since 2010 the Brazilian government, slaughterhouses, retailers, and NGOs have made a concerted effort to reduce deforestation, with public authorities responsible for satellite monitoring of the rain forest. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

Supply Chain

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective.

Globalization

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics

Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

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). Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP.

ROE

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma

The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

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. It is not efficient or equitable, and it does not raise as much revenue as it should.

Finance

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China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% The “input” indeed appears impressive: China’s R&D expenditure increased to 1.6%

Innovation

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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

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. Any meaningful improvement in this sector sends enormous value cascading throughout the global economy.

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We Can’t Undo Globalization, but We Can Improve It

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

According to our analysis , trade accounted for only 20% of net manufacturing job losses in the United States between 2000 and 2010. its ratio of exports to GDP, has been rising slowly for decades but remains significantly lower than in the European Union, China, and India.

Globalization

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

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.

Innovation

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The Health Care Reform That Can't Be Stopped

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. A 2010 HHS Study said we were killing 15,000 Medicare patients per month with medical errors. There are few more personal, passionate, and political topics than health care.

Health Care

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Energy Policy Is Fundamental to U.S. Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

energy policy for oil should aim at moderating demand through efficiency and increasing supply by focusing on drilling. Replacing the nation's fleet of 230 million cars and light duty trucks with more fuel-efficient vehicles over 15 years could save three million barrels of oil equivalent per day. China recently surpassed the U.S.

Policies

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. And Americans convinced everything is now made in China might be interested to know that products made in China accounted for only 2.7%

Globalization

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The Social and Political Costs of the Financial Crisis, 10 Years Later

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

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. They explicitly choose fairness over efficiency. Broader measures are even more damning.

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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Beyond GDP, How the World's Economies Stack Up

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

China’s Economy, in Six Charts

How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Where Does Your Nation Rank on Wellbeing?

China, America, and Copycat Economics

The Fallacy of the "China Defense"

The Future of Retail Depends on Today's Policy Decisions

The Middle East Could Be a Cradle of Innovation

How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

The New New International Economic Order

Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

We Can’t Undo Globalization, but We Can Improve It

America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

The Health Care Reform That Can't Be Stopped

Energy Policy Is Fundamental to U.S. Competitiveness

People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

The Social and Political Costs of the Financial Crisis, 10 Years Later

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