The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 16, 2021

Their hypothesis was that if these things vanish then our incentive for living in the city vanishes too, especially given the costs associated with big-city living, such as higher rents, pollution, and so on. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4% The bright lights.

GDP 93

GDP Quality Media Incentives 93

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

To achieve growth, economies the world over rely on small businesses to create jobs, increase competition and spur innovation. In return, these small businesses often look to governments for assistance, from cutting bureaucratic red tape to providing financial incentives such as tax breaks.

Engineering 50

Engineering Resources GDP Strategic Planning 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Innovation in Cities. Of course, this approach might cost the issuer (the city) more money if it has to make good on an incentive fee — but it’s only due if the incentive is earned. Social impact bonds could be one of the most innovative and effective. Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It happens every time there’s a big announcement about a national or regional innovation policy that will lead us into the future: We are presented with schemes to strengthen intellectual property rights, enlarge the pool of risk financing, and upgrade the universities while pushing them to collaborate more with industry.

Policies 8

Policies Innovation Finance Industry 8

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. It’s no surprise that Americans work a lot; they have extra incentive to do so.

Decentralization 12

Decentralization GDP Finance Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. There was also a slowdown in TFP after the mid 1990s. by the end of that period.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The Enron effect is highly hazardous because it lethally poisons incentives. Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. Innovation atrophy. Deep debts.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

GDP 15

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors. Second is that returns for front-runners tend to be large.

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

While military use is driving much of this innovation now, like so many military innovations — from the wristwatch to the Internet — we can expect robots to reshape our lives, and our businesses, in the future. Third, make sure the teams working on the project have incentives that are aligned with the project's goals.

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Budgeting Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have. That was down from 9.7%

GDP 12

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. Policy can help through measures like capital access programs, business accelerators, or tax incentives.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

We estimate that automation could increase global GDP growth by 0.8% For these economies, automation can provide the productivity injection needed to maintain current GDP per capita. The continued growth of the working-age population in these countries could support maintaining current GDP per capita. billion to 2.2

GDP 10

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

Planning 8

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Civic leaders knew the formula for attracting industry: They had to provide financial incentives, a strong transportation system, a solid infrastructure, and community services such as public schools. cities based on findings from the 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit: Enabling Economies for the Future. Is your city future ready?

Content 8

Content Human Capital IAS Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

In turn, there’s less incentive to perform cross-disciplinary research, which, traditionally, has served as a catalyst for innovation. Of course, the private sector is fraught with innovation problems too. Instead, science is stuck in the status quo. But Lane probably chose the right employer in Google. LET THE GAMES BEGIN.

Sports 8

Sports Peer Review GDP Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. Just to keep pace with anticipated global GDP growth, the world needs to spend $57 trillion , or on average $3.2 There is every incentive to be smarter about tackling our infrastructure problems.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

Fixed Costs 15

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

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. They are also global leaders in tax avoidance, giving rise to concerns in Europe and elsewhere that their tax planning innovations have reduced government tax revenues.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

What the Jones family needs isn't merely new short-term agreements about spending less — but new, built-to-last arrangements that reset the incentives for everyone to make more authentically wealth-creating (and less wealth-extractive) choices. Well, the answer's simple.

GDP 15

GDP Short-term Finance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

And somebody reminded me that the space program was half a percent of GDP. Well-designed regulations will influence the rate and direction of innovation by creating incentives for the private sector to invest in ways that most benefit society. ” The U.S. needs to expand its AI workforce. What is its reason?”

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

Fixed Costs 8

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 8

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!!

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Breakup was critical to the development of the Internet because as long as AT&T faced no competition in long-distance, the company had no incentive to replace its copper wires with the fiber optic technology that ironically was developed by Bell Labs. Information & technology Innovation Research'

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8