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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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Are the government falling into the short-termist trap?

Chartered Management Institute

I'm sure many of you will have read the news that the Olympics this summer have caused the UK economy to grow by 1% in the third quarter of the year, thus ending three quarters of declining GDP and, officially at least, taking us out of recession. The parallels with the finance industry are stark. The political world is no better.

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Is GDP the Right Measure of Wealth and Well-Being?

Harvard Business Review

In case you skimmed too fast to get the point, here it is: that favored benchmark of national performance, GDP growth or GDP per capita, is a distortion of reality that guides us to decisions contrary to what people really want. despite hiring some noted academics to mortarboard-wash our conclusions with statistics and citations.

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Greece Needs to Be Honest About the Numbers

Harvard Business Review

Georgiou’s crime was that back in 2009, he strictly applied globally accepted international rules in reporting the Greek government’s budget deficit, which had the effect of increasing it by just under 3% to a whopping 15% of GDP. Calculating this debt in “present” (i.e.,

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Promoting Entrepreneurship in Vulnerable Economies

Harvard Business Review

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. They advise entrepreneurs on areas including finance, marketing, customer service, and human resources. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Because most managers are simply unbearable. 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.

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Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce, and World

Harvard Business Review

But as good managers have discovered in so many realms of human need, pure philanthropy is not the only means for addressing social challenges. So what can the rest of us do to spur the development of better finance, and take investment and corporate involvement to the next level? Corporate social responsibility Education Finance'

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