Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

In fact, a survey of more than 500 senior executives showed that only 1% of companies hit their financial forecast over three years, and only one out of five are within 5%. But some forecasts focus too much on macro data, like GDP, urbanization, and population growth. Forecasting is the third rail of business. Insight Center.

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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

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% These concerns can be heard in many places: the sobering survey by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin in HBR's special March issue on U.S. 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 30, 2013

Over recent years, governments too have increasingly begun to realize that focusing on GDP growth alone does not necessarily lead to improvements in living standards of their citizens. Put simply, what’s good for increasing GDP may not be good for the long-term betterment of society. Latin America is Rising.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Foshan is China's seventh-largest city in terms of GDP. In the United States, locus of the revolution's second stage, it took more than 50 years to double GDP. But a century later, when China and India industrialized, they doubled GDP in 12 and 16 years, respectively.

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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 8, 2013

of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% China is well on its way to doubling the number of patent applications filed with the State Intellectual Property Office, from 1 million in 2010 to 2 million by 2015. An anonymous survey shows that over half the executives believed that China would have a bigger economic power than the U.S.

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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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

According to a 2010 study by Goldman Sachs , "If Japan could close its gender employment gap.Japan's workforce could expand by 8.2 million and the level of Japan's GDP could increase by as much as 15 percent.". Fully 77% of off-ramped women surveyed want to rejoin the workforce. 31%) and Germany (35%).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

A survey of members of Tech London Advocates, an industry group, revealed that 87% opposed Brexit. 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 prognosis is not good. billion as compared to $4.4

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s true of GDP. At that point if you took a survey of what the outlook was, you’d get an overwhelming positive response the day before it falls on its face. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. That is true of the unemployment rate. It didn’t happen.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

first-generation immigrants make up 14% of the population, but in three separate surveys Americans guessed the amount was in the 32%–42% range. The same surveys indicate that people in more than a dozen European countries overestimated the number of immigrants in their countries threefold to fourfold, with similar effects.

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