Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Such policies are often illegal but nonetheless remain in practice.

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Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. And all firms should realize that in the war for talent, women are increasingly seeing entrepreneurship as a compelling alternative if a career path appears stunted.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

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.”. Economist Ronald Coase proposed auctioning off segments of the electromagnetic spectrum in late 1950s, a policy idea that was later adopted in the 1990s. Here a few notable examples.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

They adapt the firm’s marketing policies and practices to the opportunity by: Educating HQ on prevailing target-market standards. Ask these same managers after a launch whether they met their performance objectives, and too many will answer “not quite” or “not at all.”

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Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. With fewer breakthrough products to sell overseas, exports as a share of GDP have stagnated at 11%, while imports have soared, forcing the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

This deserves a brief side note: Despite increases in GDP per capita, real wages for many workers have been stagnating in recent decades. Over a 45-year career, that amounts to a gain of over $50,000. This paper was recently published in the Journal of Regional Science. and a hollowing out of middle-skill jobs.

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Participative Trends GDP Industry 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. . Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, a new book by Kamiar Mohaddes, Jeffrey B. Indeed, while direct revenue from oil and gas fell to below 50% of GDP in 2017 (from 60.1%

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

This post was written with Laura Sherbin, a senior vice president and the director of research at the Center for Work-Life Policy. million and the level of Japan's GDP could increase by as much as 15 percent.". Japan's economic health is threatened. If ever a country needed a breakthrough idea for productivity, it's now.

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Flextime Survey Education GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. It’s true of GDP. The nature of the boards of the individual 12 Reserve Banks was altered , but not enough to fundamentally affect policy as far I’m concerned.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

You can't cover every possible contingency, but having a set of options lined up in case things don't work out as expected is a basic rule of good risk management, entrepreneurship , negotiation, career planning, and all number of other endeavors. Partly this was the natural shortsightedness of politicians.

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Contingency Plans Crisis Politics GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Many workers have found, well into their careers, that their physical skills for making and transporting “things” are less relevant and valuable than the once were. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today.

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