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Is An Ethnically Diverse Founding Team Key To Startup Success?

The Horizons Tracker

This represents a growth in global GDP of 6%, which to put that into context is slightly higher than the recent economic forecast from the World Bank of the hit to global GDP from COVID-19. The researchers examined data from all European venture capital deals between 2010 and 2020 that saw more than $1 million raised.

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

Strategy Driven

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. If you’ve ever watched a large commercial logistics operation at work, you’ll have noticed something: everything is standardized. Improve Your Distribution Network Through Standardisation.

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Working Mothers Are Important Contributors to the U.S. Labor Force

HR Digest

female workforce in 2020 , it is evident that many women are no longer giving up one for the other, choosing instead to both find work and care for their families. The UN Women website states that by increasing female employment in OECD countries to match the levels presented by Sweden, GDP could be boosted by over $6 trillion.

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Why Kaiser Permanente Is Integrating Sustainability into Health Care Operations

Harvard Business Review

GDP and 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. The company has made increasing commitments to renewable energy as part of its aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals (30% by 2020). Setting a 30 percent absolute GHG reduction goal by 2020 is in line with what scientists tell us we need to do, and it's unusually aggressive.

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The Productivity Challenge of an Aging Global Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% MGI has identified sufficient opportunities to boost productivity growth to 4% in the 19 national economies of the G20 group plus Nigeria, which together account for 80% of world GDP. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1%

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The Power of Digitalizing Health Care - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business Review

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. By 2020, BI Intelligence predicts that there will be 24 billion IoT devices on Earth, or about four devices per human being on the planet.

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Globalization Is Becoming More About Data and Less About Stuff

Harvard Business Review

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon.