Eric Jacobson

APRIL 4, 2018

What’s surprising is that relentless reliability turns out to be the most powerful behavior. This iconic CEO is powerful and patrician, a bold, charismatic extrovert with a flawless résumé. And hiring or holding onto the wrong CEOs costs shareholders an estimated $112 billion in lost market value every year. non-farm GDP).

CEO 50

CEO Books Succession Charisma 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff. Consumer demand in all markets, aided by technology, will drive disruption in the health care industry.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors.

GDP 9

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Sub-Saharan Africa is already a competitive market place. The popular perception is that many African markets are all about energy.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

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. Boosting SME growth has the power to diversify economies and make them far less vulnerable to sector-specific shocks and fluctuations in private capital flows.

GDP 14

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Most management writing focuses on startups or large companies, but if recent performance is any indicator, midcap companies are the place to be. trillion in private sector GDP. Replace counterfeit “strategies” with real market identity. Over 200,000 midcap businesses collectively employ 34% of the U.S.

Company 8

Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

We all have a stake in the infrastructure surrounding us — the roads, buildings, power lines, and telephone networks that we rely on daily. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. an estimated $100 billion per year.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The long-view trajectory of electric vehicles suggests a future where electrons will power more cars than carbon compounds. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. Of the 400 top global universities, only three are in Africa.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

In the last few years, a more powerful dynamic has gained traction. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. It also demands senior management and board involvement. That is the reactive approach to economic development.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Lean is a powerful management tool, but having the “exact” number for efficiently doing the “work” of today jeopardizes the future by not having “extra” people thinking on it. Investment in fundamental science, the R, has dropped from more than 2% of U.S.

Innovation 9

Innovation Market Segmentation GDP Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% The world is aging, and that matters for growth.

Globalization 8

Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Falling incomes will have grave consequences in places like the United States and Europe, where consumption accounts for 56% or 69% of GDP , respectively, requiring new social supports, such as a universal basic income. Position : Despite the power of intelligent technologies, any gains in national productivity levels will be low.

GDP 8

GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

multinationals, it now invests far more heavily in the growth markets of the BRICS. It's because Chinese parents invest heavily in their children's education, generally for an only child whose earning power will determine the parents' and grandparents' comfort in old age. Coca-Cola still invests in the United States but, like most U.S.

Innovation 15

Innovation Long-term Politics GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Conventional wisdom has it that the traditional arrangement raises hackles because it is a dated relic of the bipolar Cold War Western power era. Yes, with regard to what the emerging powers are asking for. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 12

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. But while the power to initiate a transition to a consumption-led economy lies in government hands, what the government unleashes, companies can nurture.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Perhaps no term has so captured the global analyst community since the coinage of "emerging markets" itself. Even international relations theorists have tried to make BRICs a concrete object of study at academic conferences, shunting aside traditional approaches to understanding rising powers.

Banking 14

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

In the few years since the financial crisis of 2008 hit us where it hurts, the calls for the "end of capitalism" have rung out from the streets and halls of power alike. Take what seem to be the three central tenants of capitalism as we know it: competition , the pursuit of financial gain , and the basic geography of power.

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

If it weren’t for sterling trading significantly lower and a new UK government being in power, things would look like business as usual. Price changes (of currency and goods) can be observed nearly in real time, whereas fundamental macro variables such as GDP and its components become available with just a few months’ delay.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 For example, despite all the froth about how companies need to accelerate growth in emerging markets, three-quarters of the U.S. executives surveyed said they will continue to invest heavily in their home market, which is a largely mature and slow-growing economy.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In this brave new world, public companies are losing their dominance : their share of America’s GDP, workforce, and assets has fallen by 50% over the last quarter of the 20th century. Without external markets to please, they can take a long-term perspective and make decisions on the basis of sustainable economic value.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Reputation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. Innovation atrophy. That's the Enronian economy in a microcosm. Deep debts.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Despite the internet and cheap, super-powerful computers, people aren’t seeing a lot of opportunity to challenge incumbents. There’s been growing attention to the power of intermediaries. As Benjamin Edelman noted in HBR , “businesses and consumers have become starkly more dependent on a number of powerful platforms.”

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. China's late-20th-century rise is very much the unfinished business of the Industrial Revolution.

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

It is the continuous obligation of economic policy to match increases in productive potential with increases in purchasing power and demand. Automation anxiety is made more acute by a labor market that has tilted against workers over the last 30 years, with increasing income inequality and stagnant real wages. in 2005 to 15.8%

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We hope this will serve as a powerful motivator to improve leaders’ decision making and bring sustainable business practices further into the mainstream. of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. Brazil’s Beef Industry.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

So how do the powers that be break out of that cage and resolve these dilemmas? In a radically decentralizing world, we are the powers that be. And only then will we have the power to wrestle this great Capitalists' Dilemma, the beast tearing savagely through the global economy, finally to the ground. They don't.

Globalization 15

Globalization IPO Decentralization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. 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.

Tversky 10

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. Those who say the cost is dropping often point to the dramatically falling costs of computing power. But when it does come, it will not demand costly breakthrough innovation either in wireless technology or digital marketing.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This piece describes a couple of other examples stemming from the research, including the struggle to get men to drink diet sodas (black cans and avoidance of the word "diet" help) and how gents on Porsche message boards managed their insecurities when the car company came out with an SUV. But marketers bear a certain responsibility too.

Brand 8

Brand Education GDP Video 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

They’re not expanding as a land power, but they see naval power as critical for facilitating their economic ambitions in the region. Look at China 30 years ago and the role it had in global GDP. So they absolutely want to change the rules of the road through their real power and influence. It’s escalatory.

Long-term 8

Long-term Politics Globalization Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , a 2013 dollar has one-tenth the purchasing power of the 1950 version. Still, gold has held onto its purchasing power over time. Since then the focus has moved on to inflation or, recently, nominal-GDP targeting. By contrast, bitcoins have been skyrocketing in value.

Price 8

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 8