Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. For example, many, if not most, of the Chinese products we buy every day are produced by German-made machinery, and the companies that make them are thriving. But the fairy tale that the U.S.

Innovation 14

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

This helps to explain why Greece has one of the lowest license and patent revenues from abroad as a percentage of its GDP, as well as one of the lowest contributions from high-tech product exports to its trade balance. Closer collaboration between schools, research institutes, and companies would enable the incubation of new ideas.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

For instance, recent Dow Jones research on venture-backed companies in the U.S. On the other end of the growth spectrum, analysis of a dataset from 350 micro finance institutions across 70 countries indicated lending to more women was associated with lower write-offs and lower portfolio-at-risk. Smart companies are watching this trend.

Globalization 11

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Here a few notable examples.

Strategy 10

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

She went onto a journalism career at the Financial Times, Globe and Mail, and Reuters, and wrote books on Russia’s transition to capitalism and the rise of the global plutocracy. There are now a lot of private companies, and there is a market. And some important reforms of state finances haven’t happened.

Politics 8

Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It’s true of GDP. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

Long-term 10

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 10