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Research Reveals Unfair Stereotypes About Homeless People

The Horizons Tracker

It’s extremely costly in terms of GDP as well as human lives, and the current approaches to homelessness reduction are not working. What’s surprising to me was how large this bias was,” the authors conclude. “Homelessness is such a big problem in North America right now. ”

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Countries Hurt Themselves When They Deny Immigrants Access To Banking

The Horizons Tracker

The authors highlight how so much of the debate around immigration focuses on the cost of providing basic public services, but it overlooks the significant benefits immigrants provide to the community and to the economy. There is a double urgency to calculating these impacts,” the researchers say.

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

But few governments appear to have the money or the political will to foot the up-front costs to prevent or fight fragmentation. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. Innovation in Cities.

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Tackling Big Global Challenges with Low-Cost Innovation

Harvard Business Review

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Here are some striking examples of how these digital innovators are shaping the frugal economy worldwide: Healthcare.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.) counties, which account for 90% of GDP in that sector.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). And capital continues to expand.

ROE 13