Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

When we think of innovation, we tend to think of smart, technically trained people sitting in a room coming up with game-changing ideas. But innovation is just as much a function of connections—of a person’s or team’s ability to access global information networks and work alongside others with relevant skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. The two different types of research are complementary.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. That would, in effect, boost GDP per worker from $120,000 to $141,000. Here’s the arithmetic.

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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%. 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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

While military use is driving much of this innovation now, like so many military innovations — from the wristwatch to the Internet — we can expect robots to reshape our lives, and our businesses, in the future. Delivering Large-Scale IT Projects on Time, on Budget, and on Value (McKinsey Quarterly). ALSO: UNICORNS.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. So what are we to do? Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Contingency budgets are $1.4 For the 2008 Games, China built a spectacle of unmatchable scale , with a budget of some $80 billion. London's planned budget was inked in at one-fifth of that figure, subject to achieving all commercial revenue targets. In doing so, they reinforced the importance of innovation to the Games culture.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. Just to keep pace with anticipated global GDP growth, the world needs to spend $57 trillion , or on average $3.2 The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates that investment equivalent to 7.9%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

The stakes are particularly high for cities, where urban infrastructure projects from mass transit to bridges , tunnels, housing, and hospitals too often exceed their budgets by enormous sums. Innovation in Cities. An estimated $12 trillion a year , approximately 16% of global GDP , is spent on capital projects globally.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

of the GDP on healthcare in 2012. To meet these challenges, we believe academic medicine must embrace disruptive innovation in its core missions: educating the next generation of health professionals, offering comprehensive cutting-edge patient care, and leading biomedical and clinical research. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But as the carbon vortex gains momentum, there is also evidence of an equal and opposite vortex pulling us toward breakthrough innovation and a more sustainable future. The aim: to work out how best to invest an increasingly squeezed global carbon budget for much-enhanced economic, social, and environmental returns.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Last week PwC released its Low Carbon Economy Index 2012 report, which calculated one simple, powerful number: In order to meet the 2°C warming target, we will need to reduce the global carbon intensity (how much carbon it takes to produce every unit of energy or GDP) by 5.1% But constraints drive innovation. every year until 2050.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. The science of climate change gets clearer: the IPCC lowers our carbon “budget.”. So what’s really new this year?

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

increase in gross domestic product (GDP), as better educated students are more knowledgable, more innovative and earn more money. Other research has found a 50% increase in exam results leads to between a 0.7% billion and $7.6 billion and $7.6 How can we appoint more Architects?

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