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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? After more than five years of sluggish growth, U.S. to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5 Provide financial security against the costs of ill-health.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. The digital revolution, therefore, is helping to create a more frugal economy, one that generates greater value in a highly efficient, socially inclusive, and eco-sustainable manner — using fewer resources. GDP by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

As a percentage of GDP, it’s now back to mid-1990s levels: There’s a version of the chart above in the much - discussed paper that MIT economist David Autor presented last week at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting. After the dot-com bubble, investment in software and information processing equipment in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. Factor accumulation (capital and labour) thus accounts for about 60 to 70% of GDP growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

We in the West tend to think of innovation as the next, new, shiny, tech, globally-accepted thing. higher-speed broadband, mobile phones, smart devices), can lead to fresh and surprising thinking about local and regional problems, and one day these over-looked corners of the globe may produce world-class innovations as a result.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% MGI has identified sufficient opportunities to boost productivity growth to 4% in the 19 national economies of the G20 group plus Nigeria, which together account for 80% of world GDP. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1%

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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

AUGUST 5, 2015

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. So what are we to do? Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. Entrepreneurship & Opportunity (entrepreneurial environment, innovative activity, and access to opportunity). Doing so, however, produces insights on vital questions the answers to which are not yet (and may never be) reflected in GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

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. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. But that is about to change, as big data and the ability to crunch it will deliver actionable insights that will increase health care’s reach, efficiency, accuracy, and value. Mobile Apps and Individuals’ Engagement in Self-Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The United States takes pride in being on the cutting edge of all things digital, and rightly so: American innovations and innovators have led the way. In leading sectors, digital and mobile aids help workers do their jobs more efficiently, and routine tasks are digitized at the same time as new digital jobs are created.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. The opportunities to innovate will differ greatly by segment. Yelp, Zillow, and Trip Advisor are examples of innovations in this context.

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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. Policy can help through measures like capital access programs, business accelerators, or tax incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Superstar companies make lots of profit per employee, so as they become a bigger and bigger part of the economy, the overall share of GDP going to labor goes down. Indeed, we show that the industries where concentration has risen the most are also those where there has been the fastest growth in productivity and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. Innovating away from past exclusion. China, and most countries of Western Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

trillion to the GDP, or about one-fifth of the nation's total gross domestic product. Advancing Innovation: Today's policies need to: • Protect consumer privacy while promoting innovation: NRF supports industry-led self-regulation. Public policy must protect consumer privacy without hindering technological innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. But just as U.S. They employ 12.3

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9 Though economic growth remains a highly uncertain area of study, virtually all economists agree that technological innovation plays a central role.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But as start-ups mature, the grow-at-all-cost narrative will be replaced by a flight to capital efficiency and profitability. In this next chapter, the Philippines — the world’s second-fastest growing economy — will play a crucial role in helping tech companies access the talent to scale efficiently and sustainably.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

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. A study found that 18% of school age girls in Rwanda, for instance, miss school because menstrual pads are too expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. Maybe profitability has been high because a continuing stream of “big bang” innovations have added so much value that companies can keep a large chunk as profits even while lowering prices for consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6% of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

He''s also just written a book, Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. I wrote the book on the conviction that innovation is important for having a healthy economy, for having an economy that will deliver prosperity. There''s nothing about innovation there. I think that suspect No.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Soldiers like efficiency and order. increase in gross domestic product (GDP), as better educated students are more knowledgable, more innovative and earn more money. In the meantime, buoyed up by an undeserved reputation, the Surgeon has moved on to their next patient. Soldiers trim and tighten, focusing on the bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Until you ask yourself: how often, despite billions spent on "service," "creativity," "innovation," "changing the game," "motivation," "leadership," and assorted other magical buzzword-incantations, has something like the preceding happened to you, anywhere — ever? Now, this might sound entirely trivial.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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