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. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 14

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. Growth means adding revenue at the same pace you are adding resources; scaling means adding revenue at a much greater rate than cost.

Company 8

Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Prahalad’s assertion that “Growing up in India is an extraordinary preparation for management” was wrong? 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' Not necessarily.

CEO 12

CEO Altman Globalization GDP 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. 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.

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

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. It also demands senior management and board involvement.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

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.

Banking 14

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 14

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.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting GDP Resources Project 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. But perhaps the costs have risen, too. But perhaps the costs have risen, too.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

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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GDP Policies McKinsey Politics 8

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%.

Long-term 8

Long-term Politics Globalization Uncertainty 8

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.” Critics of this idea argue that it would simply ensconce bad management. There is no cost to anybody other than the investors in hedge funds.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term NPV 8

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.

Execution 8

Execution White Paper Shaw Price 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. the Obama administration started to incorporate the “social cost of carbon” in decision-making and the Pentagon made climate change a military priority. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

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.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8