Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

And we need to focus on the aspect of the situation that surprises me the most: the lack of innovative financing mechanisms to allow investors (companies, individuals, or governments) to channel much needed funds to where we all know they will reap a reward. higher GDP per capita than countries with average literacy scores.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

I couldn''t help but think back to that as controversy erupted this week over Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff''s oft-cited three-year-old finding that economic growth plummets when a country''s debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 90%. growth in countries with debt/GDP of more than 90%, they came up with 2.2%

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

to 8% GDP growth rate already is a significant slowdown from the nearly 10% annual pace at which China''s economy had been growing until last year. In the first, published in Asian Economic Papers last year, they reported a marked tendency toward slower economic growth when per capita incomes reach around $17,000 a year (in 2005 prices).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Year after year, Gallup reports that most employees are unhappy at work, and that the number one reason for dissatisfaction is their boss. their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that's 40% of China's entire GDP). Because most managers are simply unbearable.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. These firms were more than twice as likely to report that their access to credit had decreased since before Sandy. Younger firms were especially likely to report that their interest rates increased after the storm. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Foreign Policy reports in this intriguing list of the 10 most overlooked stories of 2012. Oil was discovered in the Congo worth about 28 times its GDP. FINANCING THAT VACATION HOME IN VANUATU. Brazil became a net importer of people. EU member Cypress turned to Moscow for its bailout funds. Nothing could be easier.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Reports of an entrepreneur trying to teach a homeless man to code and, most recently, of one ranting publicly against the homeless haven’t helped. By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance. trillion.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. In its latest report , Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies points to an “affordability crisis” in the U.S. Here are some striking examples of how these digital innovators are shaping the frugal economy worldwide: Healthcare. To rein in these costs and deliver better care at lower cost, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

We are just waiting for GDP data to confirm the inevitable. As Forbes reported, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has admitted that he is officially "clueless on the economy's soft patch.". Even the businesses that are optimistic and thus inclined to secure financing are finding loans hard to come by.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP.

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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. percentage points of GDP growth per year). We calculate that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

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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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. Consider that three out of the four largest economies in the world in 2030 are expected to be in Asia; by 2050 , half of the global GDP will come from Asia; three of the top six trading partners for the U.S.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Already, the World Trade Organization reports a rise in protectionist measures by the G20 countries, with 1,583 added since 2008 and only 387 removed. Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Though the traditional media continue to report wars, famine, and HIV, most business media showcase Africa as a continent with opportunities. There's a growing middle class, expanded GDP, and general optimism in the region. Africa has become a place where financial institutions are financing real estate projects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S. How has Europe dealt with the situation? position.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

In his recent New York Review of Books article , Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman points to an October report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that basically apologizes for its austerity recommendations in the last few years — backed up with evidence. Having your own currency may not be such a bad idea after all.

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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. When it comes to Brazil, the economy is picking up.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

As reported in our recent HBR article “60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed,” each scored highly on our Digital Evolution Index; with the exception of South Korea, each is also in a state of high digital momentum. Each is a highly evolved digital player.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

still remains the largest economy within a single national border (the EU is about the same size but includes 27 States) with a GDP that is 200% larger than that of China. More than a month ago, I published an article stating that the U.S. was headed back into recession and very little has changed since then. But the U.S.

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