Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. We thought getting data would be pretty easy.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

And 2015 is looking even better, with R&D investment at the highest level (as a percentage of GDP) in the history of America. Then the markets hammer their companies for low top-line growth, telling executives that they won’t be able to maintain profit growth without revenue growth.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It was Abraham Maslow who gave us that famous observation — “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Over recent years, governments too have increasingly begun to realize that focusing on GDP growth alone does not necessarily lead to improvements in living standards of their citizens.

Globalization 15

Globalization GDP Hammer Maslow 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8