Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

America doubled down on a strategy of suburbs, automobiles, housing, and the debt-fueled trappings of a consumer economy, which worked like gangbusters, boosting GDP for the nation, creating millions of jobs, and swelling corporate profits left and right. Yeah, about that. There are tons of stats showing we're in a brand new world.

Management 15

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Lean is a powerful management tool, but having the “exact” number for efficiently doing the “work” of today jeopardizes the future by not having “extra” people thinking on it. Efficiency is not innovation. The less science, the fewer ideas for new businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have. That was down from 9.7%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% MGI has identified sufficient opportunities to boost productivity growth to 4% in the 19 national economies of the G20 group plus Nigeria, which together account for 80% of world GDP. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. Sokopepe uses SMS and web tools to offer market information and farm record management services to farmers. As they see that developing mobile apps alone cannot feed Africa, many will turn to farming as a business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But as start-ups mature, the grow-at-all-cost narrative will be replaced by a flight to capital efficiency and profitability. In this next chapter, the Philippines — the world’s second-fastest growing economy — will play a crucial role in helping tech companies access the talent to scale efficiently and sustainably.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

The bill hopes "to advance the mutual interests of the United States and Africa with respect to the promotion of trade and investment and the advancement of socioeconomic development and opportunity." The African diaspora has played key roles in the development of the continent. From Nigeria's Azikiwe to Ghana's Nkrumah , the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. In May, AfDB shareholders elected former Nigerian agriculture and rural development minister Akinwumi Adesina as AfDB President.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. 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. For too long, business objectives and management philosophies have focused on efficiency over productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. Lack of childcare?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands.

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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. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. They employ 12.3

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

An effective starting point is to break cities into four segments across two distinctions: legacy vs. new cities, and developed vs. emerging economies. Segment 1: Developed Economy, Legacy City. Implications for entrepreneurs: Denizens of developed legacy cities have discretionary income. Segment 4: Developed Economy, New City.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Discussion abounds in the development sector today about the best ways to empower the poor. We need to make sure scarce resources are deployed efficiently. 5% of GDP over six years. And we may have found a way to do this.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the meantime, retail and wholesale markets have stalled around the country. The disruptive action did not originate in a small segment of the market; it was launched nationwide. In other words, very little of the estimated $2 trillion black money estimated to be stashed overseas has been captured. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. Nearly all of these practices run counter to conventional banking wisdom, which holds that to be efficient a bank must consolidate operational activities and centralize decision making on matters like pricing and lending. Here’s the arithmetic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

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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. This authority expired in 2007. The TPP hopes for similar effects.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Digital players wield outsize market power. Digital markets are uneven.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% The “input” indeed appears impressive: China’s R&D expenditure increased to 1.6%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The economic gains for developing countries have been extraordinary. Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% The fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, ushered in a new era of globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. All of this will affect companies of all stripes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age. physical capital), rather than today’s growth drivers of developing and creating human, intellectual, and network capital.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 These broad components were: Citizens/People Components: the four components in this category are: inclusivity, environment and quality of life, state of talent and the human condition, talent development. trillion by 2020, and $3.5 trillion by 2026.

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Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

When people talk of valuable platforms, they are typically thinking of things like the operating systems for personal computers, tablet computers, and smartphones, all of which allow and indeed encourage software developers to invent “apps”; or the Amazon selling system which provides a layer of basic logistical functions for independent retailers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. For all these reasons, purely market-focused strategies oblivious to the sociopolitical context are more likely than ever to prove blinkered. This is not just true for the U.S. but everywhere… This requires dramatic transformation. in the U.S.,

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