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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. Becoming future-ready. Organizational agility.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Year after year, Gallup reports that most employees are unhappy at work, and that the number one reason for dissatisfaction is their boss. Therefore, bad leadership — or, if you prefer, incompetent management — is a major source of entrepreneurship. Because most managers are simply unbearable. Not really.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% Thus, technological innovation in these sectors tends to be financed by the government and carried out within government or quasi-government laboratories. in 2000 to 2.0% in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% ” But what’s the effect?

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Democracy's Debt Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

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 ). Nearly every major democracy is now struggling with public debt.

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

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.