The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

By automating tasks like booking and contactless check-in, AI has liberated staff members to dedicate their attention to delivering exceptional, tailored experiences to guests in a prompt and cost-effective manner. Consequently, it comes as no astonishment that AI has emerged as a transformative force within the hospitality industry.

Hotels 98

Hotels Influence Ethics GDP 98

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We’ve been puzzled by the fact that business travel has been growing faster than world GDP, despite the widespread adoption of alternatives like Skype, FaceTime, email, etc.,” In efforts to cut back on costs, the pandemic has shown that real estate and business travel are among the first areas to explore. the researchers say. “We

Travel 123

Travel Tacit Knowledge Airlines GDP 123

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 26, 2020

hit to GDP, with 4,000 more deaths. The authors provide a direct comparison with China, who introduced a full lockdown, and saw a near 10% fall in GDP in the first quarter of 2020. “We are hopeful that perhaps there could be other more effective ways to target social distancing to get the maximum benefit for the least cost.”

GDP 123

GDP Comparison Travel Information 123

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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.

Banking 98

Banking GDP Long-term Construction 98

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 3, 2022

The report also highlights the considerable personal costs people bare when they move abroad. One of the main reasons for this lack of concrete planning is the cost of moving itself, with the authors suggesting that it cost the 1.8 ” Making the move. Various routes.

GDP 68

GDP Cost Report Incentives 68

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

For instance, pre-Covid, Tokyo alone was estimated to have a GDP of around $1.6 trillion in GDP alone by 2035. The data found that highly skilled workers benefit from high density with higher wages, but lower-skilled workers struggle with the high cost of living in the city. Liveable cities.

GDP 128

GDP Technology Policies Engineering 128

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

of global GDP. This has to be set alongside the high environmental costs in many of the countries in the study, but particularly those with a tradition of energy intensive industry, such as Ukraine. Environmental costs. Driving change. This relationship was unsurprisingly found to be strongest in energy-intensive sectors.

Energy 81

Energy Quality Banking GDP 81

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 10, 2022

The analysis found that GDP would likely have fallen by around twice as much during 2020 if remote working was not the option it ultimately was. The researchers explain that this claim only really held water if the only inputs were those associated with traditional workplaces, such as energy costs or office space.

Productivity 106

Productivity Products GDP Survey 106

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While there have been undoubted ebbs and flows, the last century has seen growth in GDP like never before. Given that future economic costs of human-driven environmental challenges like climate change can be enormous, aggressive action today on effective solutions is crucial to limiting future economic declines,” the authors explain.

Globalization 79

Globalization GDP Long-term Social Capital 79

HR Digest

JANUARY 8, 2019

Economic: disposable income, GDP growth, new business registration, new startups, standard of living, total employment, youth employment. Hong Kong which ranks 72 nd has the highest gross domestic product growth, but also the highest cost of living. Ljubljana, Slovenia, which ranks 54 th on the list has the lowest gender wage gap.

GDP 102

GDP Health Care Cooper Politics 102

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2022

The analysis found that GDP would likely have fallen by around twice as much during 2020 if remote working was not the option it ultimately was. The researchers explain that this claim only really held water if the only inputs were those associated with traditional workplaces, such as energy costs or office space.

GDP 59

GDP Analysis Productivity Products 59

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2021

This resulted in a boost to GDP of around 0.4%. That in turn lowers the opportunity cost of investing in innovation as you may as well utilize those skills. That’s the thing about trade: The costs are narrow and obvious, while the benefits are diffuse.” Uneven distribution. rise in the number of patents registered, and a 2.6%

Innovation 125

Innovation GDP Long-term Short-term 125

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2020

Such countries saw their GDP fall by around 20%, due to drops in consumer demand and supply chain disruptions. By contrast, if restrictions are lifted over a short timeframe, and then reintroduced, this would increase the costs by a third. ”

Supply Chain 83

Supply Chain Globalization GDP Short-term 83

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 8, 2011

This really has to be a war on job loss, on low workplace energy, on healthcare costs, on low graduation rates, on brain drain, and on community disengagement,” he says. Those things destroy cities, destroy job growth and destroy city GDP. More money, jobs and GDP turns on who is named manager than on any other decision,” says Clifton.

Books 228

Books Review GDP Entrepreneur 228

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On the flipside, unhappiness at work costs the world $7.8 trillion in lost productivity, equal to 11% of global GDP. Being happy at work isn’t just a win for employees; it’s also a win for employers. Research shows a causal link between happy workers and a 13% increase in productivity.

GDP 25

GDP Globalization Trends Stress 25

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 16, 2021

Their hypothesis was that if these things vanish then our incentive for living in the city vanishes too, especially given the costs associated with big-city living, such as higher rents, pollution, and so on. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4% The bright lights.

GDP 84

GDP Quality Media Incentives 84

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The most obvious and devastating cost is the record declines of the real gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2020 while unemployment soared and left an unprecedented hole in the state and federal budget. The novel coronavirus has shaken America and the world, causing widespread economic, political and social upheavel.

Participative 52

Participative GDP Hotels Short-term 52

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 30, 2020

This would allow them to explore how balance in the workplace contributes towards GDP. “There is, of course, a cost to consider as white, male doctors and lawyers and other professionals are replaced by, or competing with, other people,” the researchers say.

GDP 68

GDP Marketing Advertising Technology 68

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After all, research from the IMF shows that low-skilled immigration raises labor productivity and GDP per capita, with these gains typically shared across the population. Such an attitude is not only elitist, but also illogical.

Skills 110

Skills GDP Analysis System 110

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. You need to inform all staff on a standardized return process so that if a return is required, it can be dealt with as quickly as possible without imposing further admin costs.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 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. It’s a phenomenon so aptly captured by Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom in recent research that highlighted the growing costs associated with innovation.

Venture Capitalist 52

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. costs quite dramatically over the next decade.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

And yet cash does carry costs. My colleague Benjamin Mazzotta and I have been studying the costs of cash across a wide range of countries: U.S., The use of cash involves several social costs to individuals — especially the poor — as well as business and the government. Mexico, Egypt and India. Much like the U.S.,

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

The costs of education, health care, and the live performing arts are growing at about the same rate in all the OECD countries—and yet the costs of these services are much higher in the United States. total educational spending, as a share of GDP, is about is 26% higher than the average of the other OECD countries. Education'

Cost 8

Cost GDP Health Care Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Escalating healthcare costs — due in part to the explosion of chronic diseases among Americans — are expected to account for 20% of U.S. GDP by 2020.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

It’s not the first time economists have warned us about the costs of a changing climate. Some past studies on climate economics, like the famous Stern Report a decade ago, assessed the macro-level risk to GDP as a whole. Unchecked climate change, Citi said, could cost the world $72 trillion by the middle of the century.

Cost 8

Cost Real Estate Depreciation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. Those who say the cost is dropping often point to the dramatically falling costs of computing power.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

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.

Industry 12

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 12

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They also reported an average $340 per week cost to send a child to a daycare facility. The report also indicated that employers with children who are three and below can cost employers $1,150 per year as a result of inadequate child care, and a total business loss of $12.7 billion across companies.

GDP 98

GDP McKinsey Participative Report 98

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

How big would America's "debt crisis" be if we looked not merely at ( largely artificial ) financial costs, but at real economic — social, human, natural, personal, emotional, and more — costs? To begin with, America's gross public debt as a percentage of its GDP is around 98ish (aka, its debt/GDP ratio).

Crisis 14

Crisis GDP Cost Depreciation 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Overall, Graetz and Michaels conclude that the use of robots within manufacturing raised the annual growth of labor productivity and GDP by 0.36 That might not seem like a lot but it represents 10% of total GDP growth in the countries studied and 16% of labor productivity growth over that time period.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

trillion, roughly 10% of gross domestic product (GDP). Gross public debt is $14 trillion, or over 95% of GDP. Once again, the inexorable shift in demographics, combined with high and increasing healthcare costs, will result in a widening gap between tax intake and payment outflow for Medicare. deficit at $1.5 trillion than $1.5

GDP 15

GDP Net Present Value Crisis Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

of world GDP for the stalled Doha round of trade negotiations and roughly 0.5% One such tool alone, trade facilitation, could grow global GDP by 1%. One such tool alone, trade facilitation, could grow global GDP by 1%. The service sector is roughly two-thirds of world GDP but only one-fifth of international trade.

Globalization 13

Globalization GDP Merchandising Cost 13

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

Marketing 40

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Small businesses constitute the majority of our GDP and have historically been the source of most new job creation. Cost of capital is passed on to the businesses borrowing the money so it is not a huge factor for lenders.) From 2000 – 2009, overall GDP grew by 17.8%

GDP 12

GDP Planning Cost of Capital Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors. Why do laggards not jump into AI?

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10