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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. Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Copyright © 2010 Michael Lee Stallard Military Gamification in Everything? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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The Joy of Facts

Next Level Blog

leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. Posted by Scott Eblin on October 04, 2010 in Books , Current Affairs | Permalink Technorati Tags : facts , health care , health care reform , life expectancy , Patrick Moynihan , T.R. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Based on what facts?

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

Strategy Driven

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Returns management should be a major focus.

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Beyond GDP, How the World's Economies Stack Up

Harvard Business Review

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.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

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

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

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.

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP. I am afraid the answer is no.

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