The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 18, 2021

The link appears to be far stronger in terms of economic growth, with the research finding that 90% of the growth in GDP could be attributed to higher energy usage. That’s in terms of GDP at least, as when economic prosperity was measured using purchasing power parity, this appeared to provide a much closer link.

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Energy GDP Short-term Long-term 97

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2013

This has profound implications for our innovation and economic success and national security. Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. Angela Maiers Brown University Culture Economic Development Education Innovation Language Leadership Learning' should ours!

Education 169

Education Globalization Politics Learning-by-Doing 169

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal. GDP by 2020. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. The data in the graph above demonstrate the link between innovation, bureaucracy, and uncertainty. But Greece cannot stop there. National competitiveness Economics & Society Europe'

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

As a percentage of GDP, it’s now back to mid-1990s levels: There’s a version of the chart above in the much - discussed paper that MIT economist David Autor presented last week at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting. After the dot-com bubble, investment in software and information processing equipment in the U.S. Well, sort of.

GDP 14

GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It was well documented during the Covid crisis that low-skilled workers were the most affected by the financial challenges introduced by the lockdown measures. The author reminds us that in the past 11 recessions, while GDP fell by around 2% and unemployment rose by the same figure, this doesn’t tell the whole picture.

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Crisis GDP Policies Bottom-up 126

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 12

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. The two different types of research are complementary.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

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GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. The policy response to the global financial crisis exacerbated and entwined these trends still further. Quantitative easing (QE) by the Fed, Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, has involved asset purchases equivalent to more than 20% of GDP.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

And even if some firms have been stuck at the top of supposedly dynamic industries (Microsoft, Apple) for a rather long time, others have used innovation to rise rapidly (Facebook, Twitter). Overall corporate profits are at record highs of roughly 21% of GDP. GDP growth could hit nearly 5% in 2016.

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ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You cannot pick up a business newspaper magazine these days without reading some article about Europe’s economic crisis; there seems to be an almost universal consensus that Europe is sick, that its institutional frameworks and governments are unfriendly to business, and that its prospects for getting better are dim.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

No sooner had Beijing's flame died than the global financial crisis took British debt levels above 60% of GDP, excluding public intervention in failing banks. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." Selling the Games promised to be just as difficult.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 5, 2020

As governments have attempted to limit the spread of the virus by locking down vast chunks of the economy, global stock markets have plunged downwards, with single day slumps matching that of the entire financial crisis of 2008. New research from Columbia Business School explores the role the media has played in this downward spiral.

GDP 92

GDP Analysis Crisis Marketing 92

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

You probably think of a great economic crisis a bit like your mother-in-law's Christmas fruitcake: you've got to take the pain and just finish your Nyquil-flavored cement block of a slice until it's good and gone. And the black hole at the heart of this great crisis — no mere recession — might just be this: it's not about "them."

GDP 15

GDP Short-term Finance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. Innovation atrophy. 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

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. We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. So what replaces competition, what drives growth today?

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. One of the best ways to do this is to adopt an "immigrant mindset.". You may not think of yourself as an immigrant.

Career 15

Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

For example, the gains that IT contributed to the GDP of the Netherlands in 2014 were wiped out by the even larger cost of cybercrime. That’s bigger than the GDP of 75 countries combined. We might not see innovations and changes that affect all of us, and we not might be as good at communicating new general threats more publicly.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. For several decades after World War II, economists used statistical techniques to build increasingly complex models to forecast key macroeconomic variables, notably, GDP growth, inflation and unemployment.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

While a certain amount of exploration is healthy, most innovation is of the small-scale, one improvement at a time, variety — even with data. Some data is inherently inaccurate (GDP forecasts); other data becomes inaccurate through processing errors. Untrustworthy, inaccurate data is all too common.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Uncertainty Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

As the debt crisis carries on, small businesses are facing dire capital needs with no signs of growth. Every major index — job growth, GDP, stock markets, consumer spending and sentiment — points in the wrong direction. As I have written about since January of this year, the nation appears to be falling back into recession.

GDP 8

GDP Class Policies Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This time around (looking at 2010 data), the emerging markets account for over 23% of global GDP as opposed to 11% in 1975 (at current, not purchasing power parity, prices, which give them an even greater share). In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The tenth anniversary of 9/11 amidst the ongoing employment crisis has opened a wide conversation about what ails America and what should be done about it. A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. as global hegemon.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). times global GDP).

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

But breaking down the traditional organizational barriers that stifle their creativity should not require a crisis. Innovation in Cities. An estimated $12 trillion a year , approximately 16% of global GDP , is spent on capital projects globally. billion people to be added by 2050, the status quo is now untenable. Insight Center.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

This crisis has been lurching on — and on — for half a decade now. More of the same — a perma-crisis whose human toll on you and I seems to be a kind of crisis-malaise, a habituation to human heartache, the dulling of the once-razor-sharp edge of what could have been? So what happens now? What happens next?

How To 12

How To Sharpe Crisis Class 12

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 12, 2020

trillion to the national GDP in 2018 through both their work and spending activities. As a result, their reduced spending power is both an economic and a public health crisis. The research finds that omitting these families from the scheme could have a $10 billion impact on the economy, costing 82,000 jobs nationally.

GDP 70

GDP Crisis Cost Policies 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

In addition to the ones regularly in the news, I have argued earlier in HBR that there is a fundamental crisis unfolding over the longer term: the continent is suffering from a “digital recession” – a loss of momentum in its evolution toward a digital economy. Innovation Hubs Will Fragment. billion R&D fund ).

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Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The financial crisis of 2008 is often attributed to deregulation and unfettered capitalism. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% They must now pay far more attention to innovation and politics. But this ascendancy is under threat. Political sentiment has turned against globalization and the political and economic policies that promoted it.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

I see, instead of food and education "industries," an obesity epidemic and a debt-driven education crisis. Yesterday, pundits and talking heads believed this crisis was just a garden-variety, workaday crash. See the difference? Opulence is Donald Trump. Eudaimonia is the Declaration of Independence.

GDP 21

GDP Hamel Industry Construction 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

You may have heard that Europe is in a state of crisis. The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. and China take the lead in tech innovation. Investing in innovation capacity. of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S. Oxford and Cambridge.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As governments attempt to recover from the Covid crisis, there has been an understandable desire to invest in infrastructure to place nations on a sound footing for the future. GDP, in part due to the intrinsic uncertainties about the ultimate impacts of basic research.”. New knowledge.

GDP 135

GDP Budgeting Policies Technology 135

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

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Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 15