LDRLB

JUNE 7, 2013

Those we met on a post-recession, worldwide tour of enterprises great and small, say that growth now depends on satisfying customers who want to do business with companies that demonstrate qualities and virtues that were rarely discussed in capitalist circles. Survey conducted by John Gerzema, BAV Consulting, WPP Group PLC.

Leadership 166

Leadership Insurance Open-book Survey 166

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

If companies want to see their talented women reach their maximum potential, they will have to recognize the magnitude of the child- and eldercare problems and help provide high-quality, accessible care solutions. In Japan, such initiatives could increase GDP by 9%. In developing economies, the effect soars into the double digits.

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Politics Benchmarking 14

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The companies that thrive and win as social enterprises will be those that do the most with their social connections. Just because all companies now possess the technological capability to hold social conversations with employees, customers and stakeholders, this does not mean we can automatically make these conversations valuable.

How To 110

How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Women have a few powerful tools to find their way to success and leadership. About the Author.

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Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

For instance, the ratio of patents to GDP has been in decline in the United States for years, while the cost for each patent is on the rise. Indeed, companies such as Uber and WeWork have wracked up higher annual losses than any other startups in history. A decline in disruption. A number of factors probably lie beneath it.

Venture Capitalist 52

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. He found that speakers of English and Chinese had the most purchasing power, followed by other languages used within major world economies, such as Japanese, Spanish, and Russian. of the world''s GDP. of the world''s GDP.

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GDP Company Niche Marketing Globalization 9

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Happiness can have an impact at both the company and the country level. And the movement to measure national well-being on factors other than GDP could be game changing: As we know, what gets measured gets managed. For example, Shawn produces powerful evidence that social support and nurturing relationships are major happiness factors.

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Review GDP Positioning Follow-up 65

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Most management writing focuses on startups or large companies, but if recent performance is any indicator, midcap companies are the place to be. trillion in private sector GDP. The stall point for many midcaps is when they find themselves a $100 million organization trapped in the body of a $30 million company.

Company 8

Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

If it weren’t for sterling trading significantly lower and a new UK government being in power, things would look like business as usual. Price changes (of currency and goods) can be observed nearly in real time, whereas fundamental macro variables such as GDP and its components become available with just a few months’ delay.

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Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2015

In 1887, he built behind his mansion in Cleveland, Ohio, a 4-ton wind generator with 144 blades and a comet-like tail, and used it to power a set of batteries in his basement. ” GE calls the concept the “digital wind farm” and the company has just offered the first glimpse at what it’s going to look like.

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Efficiency Power Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). GDP growth a year across the period. GDP growth a year across the period.

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

How should companies prepare, strategically, to thrive in this world? It’s critical for companies to understand the range of opinions on this issue, because implicitly or explicitly, they will influence the way business leaders create the workforce of the future. Views on what to expect vary dramatically. Insight Center.

GDP 8

GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

That’s roughly, and remarkably, half of Germany’s GDP, amounting to about 9% of world exports that year. So how did Germany, with the fourth-largest GDP in the world (after the United States, China, and Japan), transform itself from sick man to economic superstar? With just 2.6 The country’s exports reached nearly $1.3

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Marketing Decentralization Policies GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. This leaves no alternative but for companies, individuals, and governments to work in smarter ways. The world is aging, and that matters for growth. over the next 50 years.

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Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Had he been born in Texas, he might be a young CEO running an energy company by now, because the funds would inevitably flow. By the late 19th century, the U.S.

GDP 11

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. And despite government revenues having been hit hard in Angola, medical device companies are still selling expensive equipment to the ministry of health.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. Boosting SME growth has the power to diversify economies and make them far less vulnerable to sector-specific shocks and fluctuations in private capital flows.

GDP 14

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Thanks to a simple and powerful article from three economists at the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, we now know at what point a good thing becomes too much. Debt is good for growth because it allows people and companies to transfer money over time. Debt is good for growth, but only up to a point. Why is this newsworthy?

GDP 12

GDP Banking Politics Development 12

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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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

All sorts of robots, not just drones, are now changing the way world leaders wield power, argues Peter W. It's a game-changing technology not merely because of its power, but because of its impact both on and off the battlefield." 17% of IT projects go so wrong, they can threaten the existence of the company itself. Scary stuff.

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Budgeting Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The long-view trajectory of electric vehicles suggests a future where electrons will power more cars than carbon compounds. I used the knowledge to start a company , pioneering the embedded electronics sector in my native Nigeria, with partnerships from U.S. publicly traded companies.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

However, many companies are not making the most of the Sub-Saharan Africa opportunity because of misconceptions about what it takes to succeed in the region. Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.).

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Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Small and large companies alike are experimenting with these concepts. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market. They can lead executives to make misguided investment decisions, and put a company’s reputation and jobs at risk.

Marketing 10

Marketing GDP Industry Objective 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The trick, says Bennett, is to look for the people first: "see what they can do, and then create a company to deliver it, not the other way around.". While Director of the Computer Center at the University of Zambia he developed the country's first ISP, which was then spun off as a campus company. He's created several.

Market Penetration 15

Market Penetration Wireless GDP Education 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. First movers and second movers can be just as successful – as long as companies tailor their innovation strategy to their approach. Radical innovation, when a new dominant design emerges that can lead to a step-change in a company’s fortunes, is often absent in their agendas.

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Innovation Market Segmentation GDP Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

This is not particularly surprising for a country known for powerful unions and a strong attachment to social rights. GDP grew by 1.9% Thanks to the extension of private agreements to all workers and companies, labor unions are able to exert a much wider influence than their narrow membership would allow.

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Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

In the few years since the financial crisis of 2008 hit us where it hurts, the calls for the "end of capitalism" have rung out from the streets and halls of power alike. Take what seem to be the three central tenants of capitalism as we know it: competition , the pursuit of financial gain , and the basic geography of power.

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Through it all, I hear a common refrain: Even though climate change is already creating material risks and opportunities for companies, and expectations from stakeholders about social responsibility are clearly rising, investors aren’t asking CEOs about their sustainability performance. But could that finally be changing?

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Letter Long-term Short-term Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Give the courts the power to shut down networks assembled for cybercrime such as those involved in “distributed denial of service” (DDOS) attacks. Protect companies that share information with the government about computer threats from liability. That’s bigger than the GDP of 75 countries combined.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Where there is economic growth, there is opportunity, and the companies that can predict where growth will take place are better positioned to take advantage of it. In the last few years, a more powerful dynamic has gained traction. Companies that fill that need effectively are doing more than reacting to development.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

Last fall, the company opened Predix , its software platform for the Industrial Internet , to outside developers like Japan’s SoftBank Telecom, which took the first license in December. The Industrial Internet could add $10 to $15 trillion to global GDP in efficiency gains over the next two decades.

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Industry Software GDP Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

In Enronia, companies would tend to produce mediocre products and services, if not downright self-destructive, harmful ones. Enronian companies would be chronically unable to create jobs (especially higher quality jobs). The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

With events like those that have changed the power dynamics throughout the Arab world, or the tsunami in Japan that disrupted many global supply chains, it's easy to think that the world is becoming ever more connected and interdependent. If so, you're in good company. So far, 2011 has been a remarkable year. 25%, maybe?

Globalization 15

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

The internet and globalization have combined to render almost every company vulnerable to greater competition than ever. The more competition a company faces, the harder it is to make money. The decline in competition shows up in all sorts of other metrics, starting with the size of companies. And what about the internet anyway?

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. But while the power to initiate a transition to a consumption-led economy lies in government hands, what the government unleashes, companies can nurture.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Currently, the annual expenditures for research and development (R&D) amount to 0.67% of Greece’s GDP. to 3% of their GDP. Some companies, such as MobileFX, Velti, Globo, InternetQ, and Lykos, remain based in Greece but have chosen to develop their innovations abroad. This is going to be a considerable challenge.

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Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9