Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Whether at the level of whole economies fixating on GDP or corporations trying to nail quarterly earnings targets, managers are being influenced by the wrong metrics and making decisions that actually leave us worse off. But mega firms don't have a monopoly on leadership.

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Meyer Leadership Metrics Apparel 14

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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

General Electric is a good example. 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 They are playing development to win.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. “I’m a living and smiling example of life after cancer,” she says. More need to follow examples like Rushika and Kristi. In 2016, the U.S.

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Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

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. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

If you want to maximize the social effects of your donation, why would you buy, for example, $100,000 worth of great educational programming for inner city kids when the same $100,000 directed toward fundraising could generate enough money to buy $1 million worth of it? at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They also improve their future opportunities by, for example, setting up a sixth form to help more of them get into university. For example, both Accountants and Architects also acquire a primary school early on. Other research has found a 50% increase in exam results leads to between a 0.7% billion and $7.6 billion and $7.6

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. Why Russia is still attractive. It’s time companies ask themselves: Who can actually afford our products now?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

We''re in the midst of a Great Dereliction — a historic failure of leadership, precisely when we need it most. Hence it''s difficult, looking around, to even remember what leadership is. Leadership — true leadership —is a lost art. Leadership' We need a new generation of leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. An example: delivering paid sports content over a 4G network with segmented advertising that is both location-dependent and paid for through betting is a breakthrough idea yet to be delivered in any market.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Cross-pollinating HQ and international leadership. Some of these practices can be carried out in the short term and deliver quick wins — for example, making sure that international initiatives are presented and reviewed at all major internal meetings. Hiring required external skill sets. Publicly reinforcing stated goals.

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Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

On the growth potential axis we typically have the leadership team define one boundary between high and low growth potential. For example, the boundary might be above or below average industry or category growth. Or it might be the difference between growing above or below population growth, GDP or the inflation rate.

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Budgeting GDP Resources Project 8

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. A few commodity agreements were signed, for example in sugar and rubber.

Globalization 12

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Although the United States maintains world leadership in many advanced industries, that leadership position is eroding. Through its leadership the company is making the ideal of industry-led regional training consortia real. They employ 12.3 Yet, there is a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

So, for example, you and I don't have to spend a lifetime building, stone by stone, a Great Wall or a Pyramid — to satisfy the whim of an Emperor or a Pharaoh — and so burn through our one invaluable precious life. Let me put that even more simply.

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

So, for example, you and I don't have to spend a lifetime building, stone by stone, a Great Wall or a Pyramid — to satisfy the whim of an Emperor or a Pharaoh — and so burn through our one invaluable precious life. Let me put that even more simply.

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 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? To take a very macro, economy-wide example, look at productivity.

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Short-term Long-term Open-book Consultative 10

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 economic costs would be very high for the US and the world.

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GDP Short-term Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What can you tell us about the leadership transition underway? How much do you expect the change in leadership to change the Venezuelan economy in the near term? He can only pull that off if he has leadership skills we don't know about yet. Are there examples of resource rich countries that have worked out better?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Many of these organizations are still run by their founders, so will soon be facing leadership successions for the first time. For example, one of our firm’s clients in the region once said that he couldn’t possibly discuss retirement until he was 100 because his company felt like part of his body.

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Succession GDP Planning Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Joe Bower and Lynn Paine “had me at hello” (to quote Jerry Maguire ) with their new HBR article, “ The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.” ” Laying out their data, they find that long-term oriented companies create more financial value and more jobs. Related Video.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term NPV 9

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. The capital markets may have been slow to engage, but the Norwegian example above suggests acceleration. Imbibe the data.

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Execution White Paper Shaw Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It is the backbone of the digital economy that contributes up to 8% of the GDP of G-20 economies. For example, Carbonite now operates several directly-owned or reseller-owned data centers deployed across Europe. Strong encryption sustains these thriving industries and defends technological leadership on the global stage.

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Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What can you tell us about the leadership transition underway? How much do you expect the change in leadership to change the Venezuelan economy in the near term? He can only pull that off if he has leadership skills we don't know about yet. Are there examples of resource rich countries that have worked out better?

Resources 8

Resources Price Policies GDP 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. Executives at Unilever credit their ranking to the company’s known leadership on sustainability.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 4, 2018

This “Moneyball for leadership” approach showed that much of the conventional wisdom about what it takes to become a CEO and succeed is wrong. Question : What do prevailing stereotypes about leadership get wrong? non-farm GDP). Botelho Kim R.Powell Leadership Leadership Books Why is it a problem? Powell was a F.C.

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CEO Books Succession Charisma 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

And at that time, the United States had a public debt/GDP ratio of around 65% — a number that has since passed 100%. According to The Economist , the world's governments currently hold debts of approximately $45 trillion (relative to a world GDP of $65 trillion ). is any example , the trend is greater debt over time.

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GDP Maturity Gordon Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

s Human Development Index and the standard economic measure of per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress. Consider IBM, perhaps the leading example of how firms themselves can upgrade their Technik. The contrast between the U.N.'s

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First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The share of national GDP at risk from climate change exceeds $1.5 For recent examples of what climate disruptions will look like in practice, consider Superstorm Sandy, which devastated the Eastern Seaboard in 2012, causing $68 billion in damages , making it the second most costly weather event in the U.S. after Hurricane Katrina.

Cost 8

Cost Tourism Supply Chain Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

For example, coffee. In fact, it is among the leaders contributing to our GDP growth, with huge potential. And I think Rwanda, partly out of scarcity of resources and partly out of good leadership, has been able to actually implement and execute. Economy Global business Leadership' And we said, "You know what?

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

GDP spent on health care continues to rise, reaching 17.9% Hospitals that have more acquired infections during a patient hospital stay, for example, get paid less than hospitals that have low infection rates. Hayon Thapaliya. The percentage of U.S. The federal and state insurance exchanges have failed to rein in costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Then China’s President Xi said he’ll be attending the annual bigwig gathering in Davos for the first time, with reports of China’s interest in filling trade gaps left by Brexit and possible leadership gaps on climate left by Trump. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

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.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We need to set the right example at home. It serves nobody's purpose for our political leadership to vilify oil producers. The role of China, which now accounts for 10 percent of the world GDP, is critical. It is fundamental to our economic growth, environmental sustainability and national security.

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