Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Around the world, you’ll find family businesses that have fallen into decline due to inadequate governance, poor talent management, and absent or improper succession planning. Many of these organizations are still run by their founders, so will soon be facing leadership successions for the first time.

Succession 8

Succession GDP Planning Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Drive down a typical highway and you'll see a succession of billboards, each one a stand-alone advertisement for a single brand. Now think about how companies approach their community development and CSR programs. My company understands that we do not operate in a bubble. With just one sponsor, a car wouldn't amount to much.

Development 11

Development Porter Banking Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. That is the reactive approach to economic development. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. They are playing development to win. That is playing development to win.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

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%

GDP 12

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

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. The continent’s long-term potential remains attractive, but a company’s success in the current environment will depend on its strategy.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

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 13

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. For existing health care companies, the operative words in that mandate have been “health care”; for Amazon, the operative words likely are “service that needs to be delivered to a customer.” jamie jones/Getty Images.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

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. For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect. Mexico and Brazil alone account for over 60% of Latin America’s GDP and most regional revenue for multinationals.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. YOY GDP growth in its April World Economic Outlook. Data can be biased for a variety of reasons.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Industry Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies.

ROE 10

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% For instance, we find that only 30% of revenues are earned by companies that operate in the resources sector. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

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. Today’s model is using African diasporas where companies hire native Africans living abroad and then send them to the continent to expand their operations.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 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. As a group, the largest U.S. These costs are significantly higher for U.S. But the future trajectory of U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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. Multiple and contradictory plausible outcomes require firms to develop more options, better preparedness, and higher resilience.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Like Japan, China combines statist industrial policies with export-oriented development. For many reasons, China is unlikely to repeat Japan's success. Most important, China is developing in a far more challenging international environment than Japan faced in the second half of the 20th century.

Comparison 13

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. found those that were successful had twice the number of women on the founding team. And in the U.S.,

Globalization 10

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 10

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?

Franchising 12

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. GDP while undertaking 40.9% private-sector research and development. shares of the global operations of U.S.-based

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Within weeks there was $50 billion in business deals involving foreign companies, including the Airbus agreement (worth $25 billion) to sell 118 planes, and Italy’s state rail company’s $5 billion pact to develop the local rail network. However, remaining U.S. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

According to another study , more than 40% of Fortune 500 companies operating in 2010 were founded by immigrants or their children — including some of the most well-known brands, from Apple and IBM to Disney and McDonalds. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. You may not think of yourself as an immigrant.

Career 14

Career GDP Crisis Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

But Thatcher was also saying that a specific set of financial-market-friendly, ownership-oriented, low-tax policies was the only path to economic success. GDP (adjusted for purchasing power), which gives us Luxembourg, Macao, Norway, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Switzerland, Hong Kong, U.S., The top 10 nations are, starting at No.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Policies Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies. In both developed and developing economies, women have the bulk of the responsibility for young children and the elderly, along with the bulk of housework duties. Another common challenge is a lack of support for women.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists. operations.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

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.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

GDP, outcomes are worse than in other developed countries, and an attempt to fix the system through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) now sits in the hands of the U.S. There are few more personal, passionate, and political topics than health care. The reasons for this are clear: Health care spending has reached 17% of the U.S.

Health Care 11

Health Care Incentives Quality Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

For months, the only thing that’s surprised me about Donald Trump is my friends’ astonishment at his success. “The main thing is to be independent and give your own orders and not have to take them from anybody else,” a machine operator told Lamont. Starting in 1970, many blue-collar whites followed his example.

Class 15

Class Open-book Policies Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. Engineers from the EU have been key to the successes of many UK companies. The UK is also disproportionately influential in Europe’s digital industry. Digital Talent Will Be in Shorter Supply.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

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. It is the fifth largest in terms of GDP , and is one of the most globally connected of all major economies. The Government 3.0

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. All of this will affect companies of all stripes.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

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. ” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6 Digital markets are uneven.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8