The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Last year online learning platform Coursera released their first Global Skills Index to try and understand the changing nature of skills development around the world. This surge not only reflects the ongoing interest in digital skills development, but also some of the softer skills that I’ve identified as key in past articles.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 30, 2020

This would allow them to explore how balance in the workplace contributes towards GDP. GDP is attributable to these declining barriers in the labor market,” the authors explain. Ultimately they hope to use this insight to develop an AI-based tool to help mitigate and address these biases.

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GDP Marketing Advertising Technology 79

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MARCH 16, 2021

The researchers developed a dynamic spatial model that includes factors that contribute to higher wages (labor market agglomeration), higher rents, the costs associated with moving, and other locational preferences. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4%

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GDP Quality Media Incentives 93

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 17, 2023

An evaluation of the scheme conducted by the Institute for Employment Studies and Birmingham University’s City Region Economic and Development Institute (City-Redi) found that personalized, place-based employment support can effectively help people with significant barriers to work.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Ignoring the need While politicians increasingly like to adopt a hard line against immigration, the reality is that most developed countries are in dire need of it. Indeed, while Dr. Ugur Sahin was lauded as an immigrant who helped to develop the Covid vaccine, as a car factory worker, his father would have received far fewer laurels.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

the working age population of the world will change considerably, with immigration likely to be required to sustain things in many developed countries. It is imperative that women’s freedom and rights are at the top of every government’s development agenda.” ” Population changes. . ” Population changes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

economy depends on technological progress, but recent data suggests that innovation is getting harder and the pace of growth is slowing down. A major challenge in business and policy spheres is to understand the environments that are most conducive to innovation. was so innovative. The innovation sector was highly competitive.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The companies that develop the deepest connections will generate more value for their customers and employees (and shareholders). Because the company trusts them to devise their own ways to connect with customers in meaningful and innovative ways. 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 8) Measure HOW, not ‘How much.’

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How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Earlier this week, Nigeria ascended to the position of Africa’s largest economy following a recalculation of its GDP by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

This study sharply contrasts with many of the existing indices that measure women's potential, which tend to paint a gloomy picture of victimhood, especially in emerging markets. Women are the primary caregivers for children, the elderly, and the sick, and this burden hampers their economic development. A new study from Booz & Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

But too often CEOs find themselves stuck in what I call an innovation plateau. A main indicator of how widespread this plateau has become is the decline in corporate investment in R&D, the invisible infrastructure that supports true innovation. GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Innovation Strategy: Timing and Scope.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I was a panelist on a session on Reverse Innovation during the recently concluded World Economic Forum at Davos. The conventional wisdom is that innovations originate in rich countries and the resulting products are sold horizontally in other developed countries and then sent downhill to developing countries. Not really.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

multinationals, it now invests far more heavily in the growth markets of the BRICS. The Chinese admire America, especially its entrepreneurial spirit and track record in commercializing innovation. America should not underestimate China's capacity to innovate. From gunpowder on, the history of Chinese innovation is strong.

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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

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

Then it enables them to improvise and innovate while performing their otherwise rote tasks, encouraging them to relate to customers in individualized and often distinctive ways. The chain has created an incredibly compelling human interface for its stores where, arguably, every cashier is an innovator. The result?

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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. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value. For cities, we analyze nearly 3,000 of the world’s largest cities by population that together account for 67% of global GDP.

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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. The modeling and simulation relies on two important features.

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GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

China is already the largest market for robots in the world, based on volume. We estimate that automation could increase global GDP growth by 0.8% For that, additional productivity-boosting measures will be needed, including reworking business processes or developing new products, services, and business models. billion to 2.2

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GDP Globalization Policies Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. Estimates show that around 8% of China’s GDP growth is driven by the shift of resources from the public sector to the private. My own research with John Van Reenen has shown that GDP growth would be lower by between 0.43

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. was recording its GDP in hundreds of millions of dollars — not billions. And while most nations are inventive, few innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. So what are we to do?

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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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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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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

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. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. And in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. A payment of cash to Eurozone households of 3-5% of GDP would probably suffice to generate a recovery.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

We know innovation drives corporate growth. As Strategy& reported in its 2015 survey of 1,757 executives, “innovation today is a key driver of organic growth for all companies — regardless of sector or geography.” GDP growth over the past 30 years. One possible explanation is that R&D has gotten harder.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring. in GDP 11 years in the future,” the authors report. What Guzman and Stern add is a method for identifying the firms that are trying to grow.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 For example, despite all the froth about how companies need to accelerate growth in emerging markets, three-quarters of the U.S. executives surveyed said they will continue to invest heavily in their home market, which is a largely mature and slow-growing economy. Indeed, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. Innovating away from past exclusion. China, and most countries of Western Europe.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. Just to keep pace with anticipated global GDP growth, the world needs to spend $57 trillion , or on average $3.2 trillion a year, on infrastructure over the next 18 years. There are three routes to getting there: 1.

Transportation 9

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 9