Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

So one solution suggested by a growing number of economists in Europe is for central banks to “helicopter drop” money , and directly finance private sector spending. The simplest way to boost demand is to give power to central banks to transfer cash in equal amounts to all households. This policy is also fairer.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Implications for city leaders: Leaders should loosen restrictions so that private finance can invest in improvements to physical infrastructure, to better use what already exists. Global urban innovators will do well to consider the different situations and approaches across the four segments and to match goals and financing appropriately.

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Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

This is not particularly surprising for a country known for powerful unions and a strong attachment to social rights. GDP grew by 1.9% last year, unemployment is slowly decreasing , and public finances are improving faster than anticipated. However, this time, things seem different.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

and the transfer of business risk from "too big to fail" institutions to taxpayers, leading to a "heads I win, tails you lose" relationship between the finance and the rest of the economy. The financial industry accounts for about 8% of GDP, but about 32% of corporate profits. Recent scrutiny of the U.S. Here also there are two issues.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

On the other end of the growth spectrum, analysis of a dataset from 350 micro finance institutions across 70 countries indicated lending to more women was associated with lower write-offs and lower portfolio-at-risk. Wal-Mart understands the power of women-led firms to innovate compelling products.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

In the last few years, a more powerful dynamic has gained traction. 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. If the government of Nigeria fails to deliver widespread, low-cost power, the fallout for GE will be significant.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Bookstores are filled with titles such as When China Rules the World and Becoming China's Bitch , and opinion polls show that most Americans believe China is already the world's dominant economic power. Simply because of its size, it commands attention in global negotiations on trade, finance, and the environment.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Six years after the global recession began, many parts of the world are still struggling to achieve growth. “I see the sparkle in the eyes of a few.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. Conventional wisdom has it that the traditional arrangement raises hackles because it is a dated relic of the bipolar Cold War Western power era.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Digital platforms like Uber and Airbnb harness the power of the internet to offer a frictionless marketplace that powerfully matches supply and demand so as to make whole new sets of assets available to customers. GDP by 2020. dave wheeler FOR HBR. To rein in these costs and deliver better care at lower cost, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

The most powerful and influential folks at Davos — the titans of the global economy — probably won't do anything to heal the world, for the simple reason that because, as things stand, they "profit" most from its suffering. If power corrupts, concentrations of power corrode. Hence, the atmosphere of groupthink.

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Ethics Globalization Groupthink Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The power of economics lies in its rigor," he wrote. Meaning that you can never get truly scientific answers out of GDP or unemployment numbers. As described by Lazear, its imperialistic power has in large part been the result of its uniformity of approach over the past half century. And in his view it was a benevolent reign.

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Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

These campaigns would contain provocative and powerful messages — the likes of which the public has never seen — on the difference between low overhead and actually solving community problems and on the need for the sector to invest in the long-term. has remained constant at 2% of GDP ever since we've been measuring it.

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Advertising GDP System Public Relations 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Some past studies on climate economics, like the famous Stern Report a decade ago, assessed the macro-level risk to GDP as a whole. But this new report, by estimating the risk to all financial assets and portfolios, finds a powerful middle ground that should get investor attention.

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Cost Real Estate Depreciation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence. Focusing on data such as population growth, inflation, and GDP growth is a way to anticipate market developments. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

Ukraine has 45 million inhabitants, is the second-largest European country by land area (after the European parts of Russia and not counting the Asian parts of Turkey) and by all rights ought to be one of the continent’s major economic powers. And some important reforms of state finances haven’t happened.

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Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building. But to tackle sprawl, multisector coordination is required: roads, rail, land-use, zoning, power, water, and sanitation must work together.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

GDP over the past decade might well have grown by an additional $1 trillion if the whole economy had performed at the level our long-term stalwarts delivered — and generated more than five million additional jobs over this period. In recent years we have learned a lot about the causes of short-termism and its intensifying power.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

To the long, dismal list of fatally broken institutions — GDP, governments, schools, corporations — we can add the mysterious Libor , and its conveniently comfortable calculation. It's not even about power and privilege, corruption and compromise. This scandal isn't about price-fixing. It's not about a bank.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% Our analysis suggests that, so far, the results have been mixed. in 2000 to 2.0% ” But what’s the effect?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. Treasury securities; the world’s largest trading nation; the world’s largest e-commerce market; and the world’s largest economy in purchasing-power-parity terms. And once again, the U.S.

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Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

So here's the question: if the challenge is raising societies up to higher levels of prosperity — meaningfully well lived lives — then what are the levers that are powerful enough to begin doing do so? Do you know what a makeunder is? When a person wearing way too much bad makeup takes it off — and looks a lot better for it.

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Incentives Depreciation Long-term Banking 14

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. Digital players wield outsize market power. Innovation and change.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. This, of course, doesn’t mean that we discourage entrepreneurs to seek financing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In 2015 real GDP per capita was $56,000 in the United States. The real GDP per capita in that same year was only $47,000 in Germany, $41,000 in France and the United Kingdom, and just $36,000 in Italy, adjusting for purchasing power. Each year, the United States produces more per person than most other advanced economies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It’s true of GDP. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 9

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

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GDP Maturity Gordon Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Governments have since created new regulatory agencies and strengthened the powers of existing ones with a view to reducing “systemic risk” and protecting consumers, workers, and the environment. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% The financial crisis of 2008 is often attributed to deregulation and unfettered capitalism.

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Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. The SOEs produce 33% of China’s GDP and account for 20% of its jobs; the central government controls one-third of the SOEs. They enjoy lower taxes and selective anti-trust enforcement to shield them from private competitors.

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Spain ran a surplus in 2007, and its total debt to GDP ratio was lower than Germany's. What got Europe into its current mess was pretty much the same thing that slammed the US economy: a real estate bubble financed by profligate private banks. They're afraid of repeating history.

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Real Estate Banking Politics Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Here are just a few observations, which I address not to EU officials — whose performance, to my mind, justifies their removal (see below) — but rather, as a friend speaking to ordinary Europeans who are suffering under their policies and who, unfortunately, have not been accorded the power to do anything about it.

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Policies Politics System Morale 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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. million mostly Syrian refugees and asylum seekers from moving onward to Greece and beyond.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Apple is an enormously powerful firm, and its actions can set the agenda for an entire industry. BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. To the extent these firms have market power, they’re less subject to quarter-to-quarter competitive pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

initiative is potentially a powerful lever in advancing such an objective through several means: ensuring greater transparency and providing more data on the workings of public agencies, encouraging more cross-agency collaborations, and helping people find jobs and economic opportunities more readily. The Government 3.0

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Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Infrastructure spending as a percentage of GDP in the U.S. Trump has talked about another financing mechanism—offering tax credits to fuel infrastructure spending.

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