The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2021

The analysis reveals that this competition spurred European firms on to develop new products and services that the researchers believe would not otherwise have been developed. This resulted in a boost to GDP of around 0.4%. Uneven distribution. The market for their software has exploded.

Innovation 129

Innovation GDP Long-term Short-term 129

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.

GDP 79

GDP Marketing Advertising Technology 79

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

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. The concern across the EU has only risen as China has appeared to have considerably more success. Lagging behind.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

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. Throughout the world, it has become a proxy for success and for failure. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. The limitations of GDP have long been recognized.

GDP 8

GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Mentor 50

Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Winning in this environment requires more than new technology ; here are ten ways to become truly social in a world that is not just connected, but interconnected and interdependent: 1) Do away with one-way conversations. In a highly connected, social world, technological innovation advantages last for weeks rather than decades or years.

How To 110

How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

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

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

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It is curious, then, that we continue to fall into the trap of reaching for one dominant tool for measuring the success of nations –- a narrow gauge of economic growth — and believing that the fixes it suggests are the one way to achieve progress. Wealth alone does not make for a happy and successful society.

Globalization 12

Globalization GDP Hammer Maslow 12

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

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. Insight Center.

GDP 8

GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. 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. By the time George Washington signed the first U.S.

GDP 10

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

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. and Germany the richest and most technologically advanced nations in the world?

Innovation 14

Innovation Telecommunications Globalization GDP 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

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

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

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

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. China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark. to 8% growth rate.".

GDP 8

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. The Amazon Go store allows a customer to simply swipe their phone over a sensor upon entry and then relies on an array of sensor technologies to distinguish between the consumer actions of picking up a product, placing it in a cart, or returning it to a shelf.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It helped spark new levels of interest in Africa by the international business community, and companies in a range of industries—from consumer goods to financial services to technology—have since expanded their African footprints. 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

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

However, I fear that Mexico continuing its existing trade-based economic strategy will not necessarily produce different results in the long term — as it wouldn’t for any other developing country. For instance, breeding programs have developed cows to produce milk that is low in fat and high in omega-3 oils. When the U.S.

Cooper 10

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. The country’s only hope of continued economic success, he said, was strong productivity growth. as befits an already very developed, very rich economy.

GDP 9

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

The aim of growth policies is to entice people or companies pursuing specific, well-developed activities to move to your locale or create businesses there. For example, when Singapore decided to bolster its economy by developing its information and communication industries, it created detailed plans aimed at products such as hard drives.

Policies 8

Policies Innovation Finance Industry 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

MARCH 21, 2017

Not coincidentally, this decline in companies’ research quotient or RQ ( a metric I’ve developed that measures R&D productivity , or how much output they get for their innovation inputs) mimics the decline in U.S. GDP growth over the past 30 years. One possible explanation is that R&D has gotten harder.

Gordon 8

Gordon Company Innovation Industry 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. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 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. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. competitiveness and growth in the 21 st century. .” They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

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

JANUARY 12, 2016

For many decades, cities focused their economic development efforts on attracting industry. But technology has started to change that formula. This suggests that success is not only about location. Sponsor Content from Dell and Intel® What does it mean to be a “future ready” local economy today?

Content 8

Content Human Capital IAS Transportation 8

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

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

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.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, is one of the world’s most successful Internet entrepreneurs. 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. But Ma has never written a line of code.

Innovation 8

Innovation Metrics Globalization Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. In fact, the costs of developing seminal software algorithms continue to rise, too. Both these trends support the notion that the costs of successful business model innovation are rising over time.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8