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

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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. Countries' levels of global connectedness are impacted both by their domestic and their foreign policies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. In 2010, just under 11% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing, and manufacturing contributed 13% of GDP. Even with wages and benefits that are higher than those in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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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).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

It predicts that the UK’s GDP will be significantly lower in 2030 — its central estimate is 6% — as a result. The respected Center for Economic Policy Research suggests that may be a significant understatement. It accounts for less than 4% of world GDP, and closer to 2% in purchasing power parity terms.

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

As for its official debt to the EU, the ECB, and the IMF, it consisted largely of payments that were made to pass through to EU financial institutions, between 2010 and 2012, so that the Eurozone banks and insurance companies would not be imperiled. The Greek problem isn’t, as Krugman insists, a classic problem of macroeconomic policy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, the U.N. trillion in bribes wiped out more than 5% of global GDP. estimates, some $1.5 And by 2015, this Foreign Affairs article predicts, the total value of goods lost to counterfeiting and piracy will balloon from 2008's $650 billion to $1.77

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

These experiments are starting to occupy the headlines of major newspapers and to attract the attention of development agencies and health policy experts worldwide. By December of 2010, 40 million people were enrolled in it, and the country is on track to achieving the goal of universal coverage this year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

This policy shift is a very big deal for all 7 billion of us sharing the climate. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

It seems an inconsequential event — no new international alliances are formed, no policies will change within their home nation, and the young couple doesn't seem all that interesting. A 2010 study showed that the public cost of supporting the monarchy was more than $55 million in 2009. GDP or around $50 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Such government safety net programs kept some 25 million people out of poverty in 2010. Not only is cash prevalent, its use as a percentage of GDP has been increasing by about 2% over the past two decades, possibly because of concerns about inflation. But because in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. Can the United States craft policies that sustain an environment in which multinationals expand their activities in America as a base for serving the global economy? In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7%

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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. All rights reserved.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2018

In places like Gadsden, Alabama, and Punta Gorda, Florida, less than half of working age women (46% and 42%, respectively) were in the paid workforce in 2010; cities like Madison, Wisconsin, had 73% and Fargo, North Dakota, had more than 75% (the highest in the nation) of women in the workforce. hour more than Columbus from 1980 to 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% From 2010-2015, the share of China-origin patents among all patents granted by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) was only 2.2%. Other than in a few sectors such as defense, India has no policies designed to aid domestic over foreign companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. 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. as global hegemon.

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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

MAY 3, 2018

From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 A 2014 study by the European Centre for International Political Economy discovered that recently enacted or proposed barriers could reduce GDP modestly in India (0.1%) and more substantially in other markets, such as the EU (0.4%) and Vietnam (1.7%).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

It sets out policies for social development and economic growth, identifies promising areas for investment, and indicates where governmental resources will be concentrated. It provides an important window into the government policies which will shape the economy in the coming years.

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Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8

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 was curtailed slightly.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

This post was written with Laura Sherbin, a senior vice president and the director of research at the Center for Work-Life Policy. According to a 2010 study by Goldman Sachs , "If Japan could close its gender employment gap.Japan's workforce could expand by 8.2 Japan's economic health is threatened. 31%) and Germany (35%).

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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

AUGUST 22, 2012

in early 2009 were so strong that no imaginable set of policies could have avoided a deep and long recession that blew a hole in the federal budget. The differences in hypothetical McCain economic policies vs. actual Obama ones fade into relative insignificance beside that. and GDP has grown faster.

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IAS GDP Policies Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

At the regulatory and policy levels, authorities have doggedly pursued U.S. 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.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States desperately needs an energy policy. However, to have climate change policy you need an energy policy. In this year's State of the Union address , President Obama tempered his message, saying the country needs an "all of the above" energy policy to provide supplies that are cleaner and cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. 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. Furthermore, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Surowiecki ultimately didn't think this approach made sense for crafting national fiscal policy. 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. So, is any of this good policy? shall not be questioned."

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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. Broader measures are even more damning. You don’t know what they really believe. In the U.S.,

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Crisis Politics Cost Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Policy makers of both parties — but particularly Democrats if they are to regain their majorities — need to remember five major points. ” “The thing that really gets me is that Democrats try to offer policies (paid sick leave! A modern industrial policy would follow Germany’s path. minimum wage!)

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