Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. Had he been born in Texas, he might be a young CEO running an energy company by now, because the funds would inevitably flow. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion.

GDP 10

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

trillion in private sector GDP. For example, Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry, lost its market leadership position because it didn’t move beyond its traditional corporate customers; it failed to understand the mobile app market. Over 200,000 midcap businesses collectively employ 34% of the U.S.

Company 8

Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

There is a sea change going on in African leadership. Since 2000, for example, Rwanda has racked up average annual GDP growth in excess of 8%—exceeding 12% during some quarters of the Great Recession. Great leadership rarely is. ” Leadership usually is. The first job of leadership is to focus attention.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy GDP Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The factory floor at Pittsburgh’s Aquion Energy doesn’t look much like the steel mills that once populated this Rust Belt city. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If GE did more than take advantage of growth as it came.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Start blowing up the dilemma by investing money — and much more significantly, time, energy, attention, relationships, imagination, and passion — in the stuff of a life meaningfully well lived. This is what the unbending arc of human potential never stops asking of each and every one of us. Stop trading money for meaning.

Sharpe 20

Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They then improve student behavior (by moving poorly behaved students into a separate pathway), increase revenue (by developing non-teaching offerings) and improve teaching and leadership (by introducing coaching, mentoring and development programs). Other research has found a 50% increase in exam results leads to between a 0.7%

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. Another domain of innovation that buttresses the argument that the cost is rising is energy storage research, a field with massive transformative potential. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Start blowing up the dilemma by investing money — and much more significantly, time, energy, attention, relationships, imagination, and passion — in the stuff of a life meaningfully well lived. This is what the unbending arc of human potential never stops asking of each and every one of us. Stop trading money for meaning.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Look at China 30 years ago and the role it had in global GDP. They have to play more of a leadership role. The Russians and the Chinese have been negotiating the recent huge energy deal for over ten years. What do you think China’s more aggressive approach means for Western economies and for the world economy? It was around 2%.

Long-term 8

Long-term Politics Globalization Uncertainty 8

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.

Short-term 9

Short-term Long-term Open-book Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

The Trans-Pacific talks have involved 11 developed and developing Pacific Rim nations with a combined GDP of $40 trillion,and which recently got a jolt of energy and complexity when Japan (GDP=$6 trillion) joined the negotiations. This authority expired in 2007. The TPP hopes for similar effects.

GDP 8

GDP Short-term Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Today’s climate challenge is so far beyond our collective experience that it demands a radically different kind of engagement from senior leadership teams in the private sector. Or Siemens explaining that the major job cuts planned for its gas turbine business have been partly triggered by the renewable energy boom.

Execution 8

Execution White Paper Shaw Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. Germany, and Walmart — add lots more renewable energy.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 9

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

trillion in government support for seven "strategic emerging industries," including alternative energy, biotechnology, next-gen IT, high-end manufacturing equipment, and advanced materials. A decade from now we may look back at China's 12th Five-Year Plan as the seminal document of the early 21st century. It pledges $1.5

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The share of national GDP at risk from climate change exceeds $1.5 Indeed, the renewable energy sector is one of the fastest growing employers in the U.S., seat at the climate change table may have been shorted, parallel leadership can show the world that the U.S. trillion in the 301 major cities around the world.

Cost 8

Cost Tourism Supply Chain Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

In fact, it is among the leaders contributing to our GDP growth, with huge potential. We need energy. So we are doing everything 24 hours a day thinking about how to increase our energy capacity. Leadership, combined with the sense people have of how they link up with the leadership. All of these need powering.

Porter 9

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. All of this will affect companies of all stripes.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States desperately needs an energy policy. With five percent of the world's population and 20 percent of its energy use, the U.S. However, to have climate change policy you need an energy policy. To achieve this, the energy industry needs to regain the public trust. has an obligation to lead globally.

Policies 11

Policies Energy Transportation Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. 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. growth in real GDP.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

However, by subsidizing the shift to green energy, richer blue states can make the eventual transition easier for fossil-fuel-dependent red states. Together, such policies would encourage energy-efficient cars and buildings and cleaner power generation. For the time being, U.S. climate policy will be fractured by political geography.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America). Second, Cuba confronts the difficult task of unburdening its largely stalled state-led economy.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Long-term GDP 8