Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

These days, many people agree that, just as the full measure of a man can't be taken by his banker, the full measure of a nation isn't reflected in its GDP. Obviously, this is relevant to managers because they are often the drivers of entrepreneurial activity as well as the inspiration to the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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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. style corporate management seems to be leading in an unproductive direction.

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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

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

JULY 25, 2011

To begin with, America's gross public debt as a percentage of its GDP is around 98ish (aka, its debt/GDP ratio). How high would America's debt/GDP ratio be if we added these costs? But the not-so-secret dirty secret is that, well, so does GDP itself. You probably don't want to know.

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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. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age. So what are we to do?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Analysts have already reduced forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% With government deficits equaling 10% of GDP, and national debt at 200% of GDP, funding the recovery plan with still more government debt would be imprudent. for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. on Tuesday.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. From an economic perspective, its goal is much the same as India's updated GDP 2.0: But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. For example, aerial images from satellites or drones, weather forecasts, and soil sensors are making it possible to manage crop growth in real time. But most farmers are still only marginally improving yields.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Two-thirds of small business managers declare to have been negatively affected by weather over the last three years. Financial losses caused by adverse weather that did not seem material enough even a decade ago now must be closely monitored and managed with weather-based financial instruments. These disruptions add up. alone, or 3.5%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Lean is a powerful management tool, but having the “exact” number for efficiently doing the “work” of today jeopardizes the future by not having “extra” people thinking on it. Efficiency is not innovation. Related Video.

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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

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

MARCH 13, 2017

That’s roughly, and remarkably, half of Germany’s GDP, amounting to about 9% of world exports that year. So how did Germany, with the fourth-largest GDP in the world (after the United States, China, and Japan), transform itself from sick man to economic superstar? With just 2.6 The country’s exports reached nearly $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

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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. In high-opportunity and resilient markets, companies should find ways to improve the efficiency of their local operations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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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. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. Attracting, retaining, and managing these highly skilled workers will require new ways of thinking about talent management and the role that external talent plays. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Wage growth has not kept up with productivity growth; labor’s share of GDP has fallen and capital’s share has risen. While technology and globalization have spurred competition, efficiency, and dynamism, the gains have not been shared by all. The reason stems from a classic idea in economics: comparative advantage.

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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. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs. manufacturers are taking notice.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

The tragedy is that countless people died even though both workers and management knew something was wrong. It will be when someone feels comfortable to speak up — and when managers and companies begin listening. Global business Risk management Supply chain' But the tragedy of Rana Plaza isn’t that a building fell down.

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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. Managing Emotion Effectively Keeps Business On Track. Successful Social Entrepreneurship Combines Mind and Heart.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Europe's crisis management hasn't looked much better. Domestic tax revenues (even supposing their collection got more efficient) will collapse as the economy contracts, so there would be little help from that quarter. At least that's where we are at the time of writing. There are those who talk about the tragedy of Greece.

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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 By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Soldiers like efficiency and order. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. In a profession that prioritizes teaching and often thinks schools can’t, or shouldn’t, be managed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Corporate profits have risen relative to overall GDP. In fact, if competition is as tough as people say, we should see companies scrambling to work much more efficiently with new technologies and work practices. But they don’t seem to be, at least at the macro level, as compared to earlier decades.

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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

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

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

I'd bet they wouldn't be scale (just call FoxConn), efficiency (call FoxConn's consultants), short-term profitability (call FoxConn's consultants' bankers), or even "growth" (call FoxConn's consultants' bankers' lobbyists). Those are the problems of yesterday — and today, here's the thing: we largely know how to solve them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Work from the fashion industry had helped cut poverty in the country by a third and now accounted for a third of its GDP. In her five years as CEO, she’d successfully managed stock market crashes, layoffs, a recession, strikes, downsizing — but nothing had prepared her for this. She’d seen the stats. Costs and Risks.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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