Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Saudi Arabia in particular is not only a major player on oil markets and within OPEC, but also the region’s largest economy that shares its vulnerability to sliding global oil prices with its smaller GCC neighbours. After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% of GDP in 2015 and 2016.

GDP 8

GDP Price Market Segmentation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

GDP growth in emerging markets is slowing. Indeed they are at their lowest since March 2011, according to the report. Crucially, consumer spending remains solid — just as it proved resilient in 2011, despite the plunge in sentiment following the 'debt ceiling' fiasco last summer.". "The euro’s future is in limbo.

GDP 13

GDP McKinsey Wilde Survey 13

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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Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

And market participants were initially thrilled. Yields are now beginning to climb for Irish, Spanish, and Italian debt as the markets realize three important details of what was agreed. The Irish government, with a GDP in 2011 of close to 160 billion euros, has committed at least 64 billion euros to its banks.

GDP 13

GDP Banking Bond Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

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. What went wrong?

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Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 4, 2011

The belief that the economy drives the stock market is common knowledge; it's Investing 101; the idea gets pounded into investors' heads, over and over again, by various pundits, daily. But please allow us to suggest this: Belief that the GDP and other economic measures drive stock market trends is completely and utterly false.

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GDP eBook Short-term Marketing 99

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The Middle East is in the throes of the same force winds as other emerging markets: some empowering, some challenging. Recent access to technology has offered an irreversible level of transparency, connectivity, and inexpensive access to capital and markets unprecedented only five years ago.

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Long-term GDP Uncertainty Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% Salinas instituted market reforms lauded by Washington, including the North American Free Trade Agreement. To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. Why can the U.S.

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GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. 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. That was down from 9.7%

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

We have ample historical evidence that when petroleum expenditures reach 5% of GDP, recession typically follows. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% And now oil is sending energy expenditures back above 9% of GDP, just as we see fresh indications that the recession persists. Annual energy expenditures rose from 6.2%

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

current account deficit, which measures the gap between what the country takes in from export income, investment income, and cash transfers and what it pays out, peaked at nearly 6% of GDP in 2006 and was down to 3.1% of GDP in 2011. Part of the explanation for the reduced attention is reduced imbalances: The U.S. Still, 3.1%

GDP 12

GDP Globalization Finance Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4%

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

to 8% GDP growth rate already is a significant slowdown from the nearly 10% annual pace at which China''s economy had been growing until last year. China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark.

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

It boasted rapid economic growth, abundant natural resources, and a large (and increasingly wealthy) market of 200 million consumers. We are forecasting the Brazilian economy to recover only by mid-2017, with GDP growing at an average of a mere 1.0% In the early 2000s, Brazil became the darling of corporate investment.

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Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Robust new construction in China and a soaring rate of urbanization promise unprecedented levels of consumption and overall GDP growth that should only invite greater confidence among foreign investors. Treated as part of a cluster, however, it becomes the center of a market with 6.9 On its own, Wuxi has a population of 2.3

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Class Construction GDP Report 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

We have been analyzing cash usage behavior in emerging markets on different continents and experiencing different socio-political and economic challenges through our research in Egypt, India, and Mexico. However, this proportion is not growing; it has remained relatively static over the period 2005-2011, even as Mexico’s economy has grown.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

A 2011 study by Partnership for a New American Economy found that 76% of patents awarded to the top 10 patent-producing U.S. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. Their stories are just some of the many examples of immigrants who've seized opportunities and brought them to market. born co-inventors.

Career 15

Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9 Tech startups play a critical role both in driving technological innovation forward and in bringing it to market.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. In other words, they connected with people who could help them with customer issues, such as staff in finance, legal, pricing, or marketing. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap.

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Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

Doing so would show that he places the highest priority on both the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations — started in 2011 and slated to end this year — and the newly launched free trade negotiations between the US and EU which are scheduled (optimistically) to be completed before the 2016 election.

GDP 8

GDP Short-term Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And a study of Kenya’s popular M-PESA mobile money service suggests that digital financial services can increase the participation of women in the workforce and create opportunities for women in the formal market economy.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Telecommunications Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that without major change, it will account for more than 20% of GDP by 2021, up from 5.2% Lowering Costs Without Compromising Quality. American health care is on an unsustainable path. percent in 1960.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The most obvious explanation for this is that broadband providers are serving a new and burgeoning market. So I settled for eyeballing the NCTA’s chart for the numbers, and adjusting them using the GDP deflator for nonresidential fixed investment. electricity, transportation, and water networks mostly aren’t.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Since then the focus has moved on to inflation or, recently, nominal-GDP targeting. That doesn''t have to be the end: Bitcoin already survived a price boom and bust in 2011. But far fewer people were paying attention then, and on its current trajectory the market seems destined to become dominated by gamblers and greater fools.

Price 9

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. ” It’s part of a Robotics as a Service market that research from Allied Market Research estimated will be worth some $34.7 The need for investment in technology.

TCO 77

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 77

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

of GDP – The Growing Market for International Travel for Medical Care – CEOs Want Health-Care Reform (2009) – Can We Expect the Health Care System in the USA to Become Less Damaging to the Economy? Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9 trillion $9,255 per person and 17.4%

Health Care 40

Health Care System Deming Letter 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Indeed, it’s GDP per capita of $72,700 marks it out as one of the wealthiest nations on earth. . Indeed, while direct revenue from oil and gas fell to below 50% of GDP in 2017 (from 60.1% in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

Resources 81

Resources Innovation GDP Education 81

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. I had an opportunity to catchup with Sramana and we talked about the program.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While it’s tempting to group China and India together as a block of emerging digital markets, they offer several important distinctions, especially for international entities and countries looking to invest. It is also the world’s largest market for e-commerce.

Airlines 10

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. As most of us know by now, we have an increasingly internet-powered economy.

Politics 9

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market. And there's the Budget Control Act of 2011. real estate market showing signs of recovery, this is probably a better time to talk fiscal restraint than two years ago. shall not be questioned."

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America).

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Long-term GDP 8