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. ” AI uncovering inequality.

GDP 80

GDP Marketing Advertising Technology 80

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers. Leaders who had access to global and more visible experiences are more likely to advance.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. While all of these are contributing factors, the major factor, in our view, is the deflationary effect of technology, which our measurement systems fail to account for.

GDP 8

GDP Wilde Intangible Assets GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. That showed growth to be less than was initially reported last month, with the figure falling to 2.4% It is also a profoundly flawed one.

GDP 8

GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Facebook, Google, and Apple have 17%, 19% and 23% women in their technology staffs, respectively. computing and mathematical jobs are held by women, consistent with the data that around 26% of the STEM workforce in developed countries is female. In developing countries, those differences are even greater.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Telecommunications Technology 8

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.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 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

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 14

Market Penetration Wireless GDP Education 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system. Currently, the annual expenditures for research and development (R&D) amount to 0.67% of Greece’s GDP. to 3% of their GDP. to 3% of their GDP.

Planning 8

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 8

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).

GDP 8

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. in GDP 11 years in the future,” the authors report. By contrast, startup quantity is less correlated and not significantly linked once the city’s current GDP is controlled for.

GDP 8

GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. in 2000 to 2.0% respectively.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. Of late, it is China, not Silicon Valley, taking the lead in developing mobile technologies.

Politics 8

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 8

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.

Gordon 8

Gordon Company Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. We thought getting data would be pretty easy.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 And, if growth is mostly about gaining market share and developing new products, why is a substantial focus on investment to retain existing customers and make existing products and services more efficient? Enthusiasm for digital technologies is not lacking. Indeed, U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 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. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Though the traditional media continue to report wars, famine, and HIV, most business media showcase Africa as a continent with opportunities. There's a growing middle class, expanded GDP, and general optimism in the region. The Americans took over through investments in science and technology; today, the greatness of the U.S.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Education GDP Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

According to a report by the Convention Industry Council , about 225 million people attend more than 1.8 GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals.

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

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.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

However, the more specific the information, the less likely it is that data will exist, especially in less developed markets. Remember: Don’t expect your approach to developed-market data to be applicable 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

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 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 12

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 12

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

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A system whose development I’ve led over the past seven years harvests large-scale digital histories, encyclopedias, social and real-time media, and human web behavior to calculate real-time estimations of likelihoods of future events. The pattern only occurs in countries with low GDP that have low concentration of water in the area.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty GDP System Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

is integrally tied to maintaining our historical lead in high technology. Adding to the concerns is a perception that American firms are outsourcing so much R&D that it will only add to the erosion of high technology industries. Second, R&D expenditures are growing faster than GDP, especially in manufacturing.

Outsourcing 11

Outsourcing Chief Technology Officer Engineering GDP 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A system whose development I’ve led over the past seven years harvests large-scale digital histories, encyclopedias, social and real-time media, and human web behavior to calculate real-time estimations of likelihoods of future events. The pattern only occurs in countries with low GDP that have low concentration of water in the area.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty GDP System Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In our Digital Evolution Index (DEI), we place them in the “digital south” which means the full deployment and adoption of online systems is still in development. In addition, the growing use of facial recognition technologies across China adds to worries about privacy and government over-reach. billion citizens.

Airlines 8

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In our most recent report, we’ve applied that analytical lens to national metrics of innovation. In particular: Countries with high English proficiency spend a significantly larger share of their GDP on research and development than those with lower English skills.

Innovation 8

Innovation Metrics Globalization Cooper 8

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

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.

Creativity 15

Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 15

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

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. Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

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.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

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. In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8