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OCTOBER 17, 2023

For instance, in 2022, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, reported an economically inactive working-age population of 36%, while Wandsworth reported only 9%. The wrong approach Despite these developments, recent proposals for local approaches to employment support may not significantly reduce inactivity levels.

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Policies GDP Proposal Budgeting 61

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. It also summarizes patterns of connectedness at the regional level. Why does all of this matter?

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Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

In a recent chapter of the World Happiness Report — published annually to coincide with the United Nation’s International Day of Happiness — we look more closely at the relationship between work and happiness. GDP is masking deeper issues. Which groups of workers are generally happier? Related Video.

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Report Transportation Stress Quality 14

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 Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers.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.

Marketing 10

Marketing GDP Industry Objective 10

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that the labor force participation of women in their prime, aged between 25 and 54, has increased to 77.8 Census Bureau having reported that working mothers made up almost one-third of the U.S. They also reported an average $340 per week cost to send a child to a daycare facility.

GDP 98

GDP McKinsey Participative Report 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. Photo by Christine Roy.

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Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Media outlets frequently report that the economy is foremost among concerns of the average citizen, and according to traditional economic measures the United States is doing pretty well. The economy is growing steadily, the unemployment rate is below 5%, and on GDP per capita America still is one of the richest countries in the world.

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GDP Health Care Education Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

market growing. Treasury market has been driven by huge investments from surplus countries such as China and Japan, which have perceived the United States as the safest place to store their savings. But they can also invest heavily in China's domestic markets. The Chinese want stability in America. They want to see the U.S.

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GDP Class Budgeting Long-term 15

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.

GDP 14

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

GDP growth in emerging markets is slowing. So commences McKinsey Quarterly's report on the firm's latest survey on global economic conditions (which was in the field during the week leading up to the Greek elections). Indeed they are at their lowest since March 2011, according to the report.

GDP 13

GDP McKinsey Wilde Survey 13

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. We're now at a fraction of the retail space growth of the last four decades.

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Management GDP Retail Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Zambia ranks 102nd out of 134 on the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report. 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.

Market Penetration 15

Market Penetration Wireless GDP Education 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

to 8% GDP growth rate already is a significant slowdown from the nearly 10% annual pace at which China''s economy had been growing until last year. In the first, published in Asian Economic Papers last year, they reported a marked tendency toward slower economic growth when per capita incomes reach around $17,000 a year (in 2005 prices).

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. The first is in regards to wages in the public sector, which as reported by the Cuban government stand at an average rate of over $7,000 USD per year. This has been driven by three factors: Lack of capital investment.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

The chart above shows where cities fall according to Guzman and Stern’s measure of average startup quality between 2001 and 2003 — more on that in a moment — and compares that to their GDP growth from 2003–2014. in GDP 11 years in the future,” the authors report.

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GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

On October 12, 2016, President Obama’s Executive Office published two reports that laid out its plans for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). The reports received less media attention than they might have otherwise because the United States was gripped by the final weeks of a presidential campaign race. ” The U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

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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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Rising import prices of some Marmite ingredients or production equipment may be to blame, but Unilever reports in euros, so without a price hike Marmite sales are now technically lower. The global structural slowdown in both productivity and GDP growth powerfully reinforces popular discontent with issues such as labor market dislocations.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

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. According to a report by the Convention Industry Council , about 225 million people attend more than 1.8

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

For the government, the annual value of under-reported taxes in the United States is $400 billion to $600 billion. According to the national taxpayer advocate’s estimates, 52% of this gap is because of under-reporting by self-employed taxpayers. If even half of this under-reporting is directly enabled by a cash economy, the U.S.

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Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

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.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

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.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

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Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

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.” ” According to that report, the top 1,000 R&D spenders invested $680 billion in R&D that year, up 5% from the prior year.

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Gordon Company Innovation Industry 10

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. Treated as part of a cluster, however, it becomes the center of a market with 6.9 On its own, Wuxi has a population of 2.3

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Class Construction GDP Report 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. Their stories are just some of the many examples of immigrants who've seized opportunities and brought them to market. All managers need to develop this ability to see around the corners up ahead. The companies noted in this study had combined revenues of $4.2

Career 15

Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. But the growth — while rapid — has not been broad-based.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 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.

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Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

ExactHire - Leadership

AUGUST 19, 2021

Pandemic Job Market. A Brookings report published in March 2018 found that 45% of those released from prison did not have any reported pay in the first calendar year after they returned home. As a country, we need economic stability, especially now in an unstable global market.

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Guidelines Review GDP Content 52

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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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

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. trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Despite the recent slack in the job market, signs still point to a stubborn STEM skills gap.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

The costs do not correlate with levels of economic or political development. Countries in the developing world tend to have a greater tax gap and a greater degree of uncertainty about the reliability of the estimate of the gap. Developing countries have the largest tax gaps, with their shadow economies as large as 30%-44% of GDP.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. These firms were more than twice as likely to report that their access to credit had decreased since before Sandy. Younger firms were especially likely to report that their interest rates increased after the storm. In the U.S., Firms applied for credit to finance recovery.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. Take a walk.

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Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

And you should develop a keen eye for the difference between "exploring a difficult path" and "wallowing around.". Some data is inherently inaccurate (GDP forecasts); other data becomes inaccurate through processing errors. For example, far too many credit reports contain inaccuracies. False assumptions are crippling.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Uncertainty Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

In recent years, however, the ability of our research ecosystem to sustain a leading global position has come into question, especially as new competitors emerge, such as China, which churns out huge numbers of new scientists and engineers and increases its research and development (R&D) expenditures at a 20% annual rate. About 15.7%

Outsourcing 12

Outsourcing Chief Technology Officer Engineering GDP 12

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. Some early reports are suggesting that, indeed, it has had an effect. So can the demonetization shock push digital payments into the mainstream?

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8