Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

One estimate pegged the annual income of the Indian diaspora at about one-third of India’s GDP, with much of that coming from Silicon Valley. Global business Leadership Microsoft' In fact, only three of the 112 Fortune Global 500 companies based in any of the BRIC countries are led by a non-native CEO!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

trillion in private sector GDP. Growth means adding revenue at the same pace you are adding resources; scaling means adding revenue at a much greater rate than cost. Over time, organizations without standardized processes become a mass of confusion, redundancies, and cost overruns. They confuse growth for scaling.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. And, the cost of not addressing this problem is more than just the emotional toll of students having a "tough time down there." 4% of US GDP).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They tend to see running a school as similar to managing a large IT project and believe if they focus on costs and deadlines, the rest will take care of itself. They’re tenacious, cost-cutting, and task-focused leaders who believe they need to trim back every ounce of fat and make people work harder. billion and $7.6 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If Playing development to win does have costs. GE did more than take advantage of growth as it came.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

A second best practice is to build the case for each business unit starting from market demand and working back to internal cost, capacity and capability measures. On the growth potential axis we typically have the leadership team define one boundary between high and low growth potential.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I don't know what sexy acronym our leading investment banks' rock-star economists will come up with next, but I hope their indicators will start to factor in whether a large population is being harnessed or whether it is seething youth bulge, and whether economic growth is coming at the cost of ecological sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Although the United States maintains world leadership in many advanced industries, that leadership position is eroding.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

Greece offered a tantalizing opportunity to socially minded critics to condemn the approach taken by the euro group under Germany’s leadership. Contractionary policies may create a self-reinforcing spiral of decline that increases the debt-to-GDP ratio.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. states could add more than 10%, and the nation’s 50 largest cities could add between 6% and 13% of GDP. trillion GDP opportunity would require the creation of 6.4 trillion in value per year, and it isn’t included in GDP.)

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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. But perhaps the costs have risen, too. But perhaps the costs have risen, too.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And so what I see here is China, vastly bigger than the Philippines and Vietnam, with not only more military capacity, but much more economic capacity and influence over those markets, seeing if they can improve their situation on the ground, and not minding so much if the cost is that a couple of noses get bloodied. It was around 2%.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

The Trans-Pacific talks have involved 11 developed and developing Pacific Rim nations with a combined GDP of $40 trillion,and which recently got a jolt of energy and complexity when Japan (GDP=$6 trillion) joined the negotiations. The economic costs would be very high for the US and the world. This authority expired in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. Instead, it will be about costs and patient outcomes: quicker recoveries, fewer readmissions, lower infection rates, and fewer medical errors, to name a few. Lowering Costs Without Compromising Quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Today’s climate challenge is so far beyond our collective experience that it demands a radically different kind of engagement from senior leadership teams in the private sector. The threats that climate change poses to business, markets, and, indeed, capitalism are peculiarly hard for most top teams to spot, let alone act on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Joe Bower and Lynn Paine “had me at hello” (to quote Jerry Maguire ) with their new HBR article, “ The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.” There is no cost to anybody other than the investors in hedge funds. For everybody else in the system, it is an improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It is the backbone of the digital economy that contributes up to 8% of the GDP of G-20 economies. Recent disclosure of digital spying abroad is expected to cost U.S. Strong encryption sustains these thriving industries and defends technological leadership on the global stage. Insight Center. The Future of Cybersecurity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

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. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% in 2000 to 2.0% in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5%

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 4, 2018

This “Moneyball for leadership” approach showed that much of the conventional wisdom about what it takes to become a CEO and succeed is wrong. Question : What do prevailing stereotypes about leadership get wrong? And hiring or holding onto the wrong CEOs costs shareholders an estimated $112 billion in lost market value every year.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The share of national GDP at risk from climate change exceeds $1.5 Insidiously, already-strained public budgets tend to be the “suppliers of first resort” when absorbing both the acute and attritional economic costs of climate change. trillion in the 301 major cities around the world. after Hurricane Katrina.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

And at that time, the United States had a public debt/GDP ratio of around 65% — a number that has since passed 100%. According to The Economist , the world's governments currently hold debts of approximately $45 trillion (relative to a world GDP of $65 trillion ). Nearly every major democracy is now struggling with public debt.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Shift the emphasis from investment and exports to domestic consumption: Among the three components of the GDP equation, China used to follow a Soviet style investment-driven policy and take full use of its low labor cost to become the “world’s factory.” Companies need to act now.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

GDP spent on health care continues to rise, reaching 17.9% The federal and state insurance exchanges have failed to rein in costs. It’s time for a better idea that addresses both cost and quality. The reasons health care costs are out of control are many, but there are two important ones. Hayon Thapaliya.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

the Obama administration started to incorporate the “social cost of carbon” in decision-making and the Pentagon made climate change a military priority. After 2015 shattered climate records , 2016 got even hotter and more extreme, creating weather events that brought physical destruction, massive economic costs, and loss of life.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. We identified three emerging market risks that are top multinational leaders should be paying more attention to this year: the election of populists in Brazil and Mexico increasing the cost of doing business. growth in real GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

At today's price of $100 per barrel, this change would save over $100 billion a year in energy costs — a worthy prize. The challenge is that range is generally limited to 40 miles on an eight-hour charge and batteries cost more than $10,000 per car. It serves nobody's purpose for our political leadership to vilify oil producers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Still, these coastal states are a powerful force in national markets, containing 26% of the nation’s population and producing 30% of its GDP. They have the ability to protect infant green industries from the market power of incumbents that do not internalize their environmental costs. While the U.S.

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