Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

By 2016, four out of ten jobs will require advanced education or training, and many hiring managers are already finding that the talent they need is hard to find. "If Goldman Sachs found the association between GDP and medals was strongest, by far, in cycling, followed by judo, rowing, and swimming. But here's the rub, Hurst says.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. While technology and globalization have spurred competition, efficiency, and dynamism, the gains have not been shared by all.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

On October 12, 2016, President Obama’s Executive Office published two reports that laid out its plans for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). And somebody reminded me that the space program was half a percent of GDP. Of course, early adopters also risk exposure to the costs of learning and of less-tested technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. could harness technologies like 3D printing to build affordable houses faster and cleaner and make them accessible to most Americans. Adding 20,000 new customers a month and with a 97% customer satisfaction rate, Compte Nickel expects to close 2016 with half a million clients.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. Focusing on data such as population growth, inflation, and GDP growth is a way to anticipate market developments. companies can’t do business there.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

In 2016, the U.S. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. spent a staggering $3.2

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. Yet, along other dimensions, the state is unwittingly hindering China’s emergence as a technological giant. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% in 2000 to 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Look around, and it is clear that the vortex is forming in multiple arenas, among them the worlds of science, technology, business models, and, crucially, money. The top performers in 2016 were China and the UK, which reduced their carbon intensities by 6.5% ” So in what medium is the carbon vortex forming? Imbibe the data.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

women’s participation in the labor market has nearly doubled, from 34% of working age women (age 16 and older) in the labor force in 1950 to almost 57% in 2016. This deserves a brief side note: Despite increases in GDP per capita, real wages for many workers have been stagnating in recent decades. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. And Lego just announced its intention to use 100% renewable energy by 2016. Let’s dive in.

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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. A third of VC investments in Europe were focused on the UK in the first quarter of 2016, according to CBInsights. The UK is also disproportionately influential in Europe’s digital industry. billion as compared to $4.4

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Then came 2016. In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. For most of 2016, the world moved quickly on climate. Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. Why all this progress?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S. The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.” million jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. Of late, it is China, not Silicon Valley, taking the lead in developing mobile technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The UK Treasury’s April 2016 report about the economic pain caused by Brexit, 200 pages long and generally well executed, is an example: It was dismissed as “gobbledygook.” ” In the immortal words of Brexiteer Michael Gove, “People in this country have had enough of experts.” economy on globalization.

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