Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Corporate executives with risk exposure in China would do well to follow the Chinese stock market very carefully as it is one of the best leading indicators of business conditions over the next one to four quarters. And right now, the Chinese stock market continues to flash multiple warning signs of a sharp economic slowdown.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. That is the reactive approach to economic development. In the last few years, a more powerful dynamic has gained traction. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. It’s stated mission is to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia.” billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8 Still, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

You are an executive responsible for unearthing the next new market opportunity for your company and — like your competitors — you're looking at maps of rapidly-growing economies in the emerging world. Foshan is China's seventh-largest city in terms of GDP. How would you react to the names Surat, Foshan, and Porto Alegre?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. He found that speakers of English and Chinese had the most purchasing power, followed by other languages used within major world economies, such as Japanese, Spanish, and Russian. of the world''s GDP. of the world''s GDP.

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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

JUNE 28, 2012

Especially in the world's most fragile states, economic development is critical to stability. Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Sub-Saharan Africa is already a competitive market place. The popular perception is that many African markets are all about energy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. was recording its GDP in hundreds of millions of dollars — not billions.

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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 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

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. After all, aren't developed nations such as the U.S. They will develop into formidable rivals. Not really.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

We all have a stake in the infrastructure surrounding us — the roads, buildings, power lines, and telephone networks that we rely on daily. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. an estimated $100 billion per year.

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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. It develops the talent inside, focusing on a few great things. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% The world is aging, and that matters for growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The long-view trajectory of electric vehicles suggests a future where electrons will power more cars than carbon compounds. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology.

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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. But while the power to initiate a transition to a consumption-led economy lies in government hands, what the government unleashes, companies can nurture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

While Director of the Computer Center at the University of Zambia he developed the country's first ISP, which was then spun off as a campus company. Upon his return, he discovered that development of the internet infrastructure had been slow. It's a society where men have accepted that women can exercise power.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

multinationals, it now invests far more heavily in the growth markets of the BRICS. It's because Chinese parents invest heavily in their children's education, generally for an only child whose earning power will determine the parents' and grandparents' comfort in old age. Coca-Cola still invests in the United States but, like most U.S.

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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. Conventional wisdom has it that the traditional arrangement raises hackles because it is a dated relic of the bipolar Cold War Western power era. Yes, with regard to what the emerging powers are asking for.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

If it weren’t for sterling trading significantly lower and a new UK government being in power, things would look like business as usual. Price changes (of currency and goods) can be observed nearly in real time, whereas fundamental macro variables such as GDP and its components become available with just a few months’ delay.

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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

APRIL 26, 2013

He should simultaneously push hard for Congressional renewal of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) which gives the Executive the power to negotiate trade agreements subject only to a prompt up or down vote in the House and Senate with no amendments. This authority expired in 2007. The TPP hopes for similar effects.

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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. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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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. Take what seem to be the three central tenants of capitalism as we know it: competition , the pursuit of financial gain , and the basic geography of power.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

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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. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Currencies imploding, markets fluctuating, politicians dithering, economies stagnating, societies fracturing, unrest spreading. Uneven, stratified, exclusionary economic development, accompanied by economic flatlining? Welcome to the winter of our discontent — again. Is America failing ? Sounds familiar. Just tour Baltimore.

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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. The downside?

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Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. We calculate that China needs to make an investment of $17.3

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Robust new construction in China and a soaring rate of urbanization promise unprecedented levels of consumption and overall GDP growth that should only invite greater confidence among foreign investors. As we stress in The $10 Trillion Dollar Prize , urbanization is one of the most powerful transformative economic forces in China today.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Many wealthy societies have low human-development scores (e.g., The contrast between the U.N.'s

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Promoting innovation is also one of the eight key reform priorities in the “383” plan being circulated by the State Council’s Development Research Center. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1%

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