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. Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.).

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Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 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%

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

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.

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GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

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

JUNE 26, 2012

debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. Salinas instituted market reforms lauded by Washington, including the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

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

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. We disagree.

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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.

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Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 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. If the government of Nigeria fails to deliver widespread, low-cost power, the fallout for GE will be significant.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 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. Today’s model is using African diasporas where companies hire native Africans living abroad and then send them to the continent to expand their operations. Education drives technology.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Firms with a cost or quality advantage have always enjoyed higher market shares. In the “good old days,” more-productive companies would take a bigger slice of the market, but there would be plenty left over for their rivals. Several pieces of data support our superstar theory.

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GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

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.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

It boasted rapid economic growth, abundant natural resources, and a large (and increasingly wealthy) market of 200 million consumers. We are forecasting the Brazilian economy to recover only by mid-2017, with GDP growing at an average of a mere 1.0% In the early 2000s, Brazil became the darling of corporate investment.

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

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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Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. But, as participants in these programs regularly articulate, they are insufficient without access to capital and markets.

Globalization 12

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 12

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? The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid. Let's call it Enronia, for short. Innovation atrophy. Deep debts. Megafailure.

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Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 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

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Since two-thirds of world’s growth in GDP is likely come from poor countries, reverse innovation is an important phenomenon. However, this also presents some of the hardest technical challenges for humanity, where we cannot simply adapt solutions used in wealthy markets. Reverse innovation is doing exactly the opposite.

Education 8

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

But Thatcher was also saying that a specific set of financial-market-friendly, ownership-oriented, low-tax policies was the only path to economic success. The newly globalized economy, policed by what Thomas Friedman dubbed the "Electronic Herd" of financial markets, just wouldn''t allow for much freedom of choice in economic policymaking.

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GDP Globalization Policies Proposal 8

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. In short, Japan enjoyed asymmetric openness — access to foreign technology and export markets but protection from foreign competition.

Comparison 14

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% We hope this will serve as a powerful motivator to improve leaders’ decision making and bring sustainable business practices further into the mainstream. of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

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. are in Asia and a fourth Asian country, India, has the potential to become the fastest-growing large emerging market in the world. and NATO forces.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

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.”

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. Among countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), women on average spend about 2.4

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

The financial industry accounts for about 8% of GDP, but about 32% of corporate profits. But "revolution" — in the sense of a shift of power and influence away from those who currently hold it — could come at a much grander scale, through the loss of faith in global market capitalism within the developing world.

How To 8

How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

OpenTable (a restaurant reservations service), Motivate (the operator of CitiBike, Bay Area Bikeshare, and others), and Luxe (a web-based valet parking service) are examples. Characteristics: These cities tend to have high population growth and high growth rates in GDP per capita, demographic and economic tailwinds that help to boost returns.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

That they didn’t have to is a tribute to the eventual power of economic ideas and research. The results were prices to consumers that were below market clearing levels, which any economist could have predicted would result in shortages: long lines at gas stations for motorists and rationing of natural gas for heating homes.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

It retains an ability to project power globally vastly in excess of its relative size. In both direct military operations and the hidden world of intelligence, the UK contributes more than its share to global peace and stability and the successful functioning of the NATO alliance.

GDP 11

GDP Globalization Long-term Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Lower costs have been reason enough for many companies to shut down their proprietary data centers and consume computational power and attendant software as a series of on-demand services. “The feedback is much more rapid.”

Management 11

Management Software BPM Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. To measure human capital, you can deploy metrics such as our productive power index , which looks at the cost of organizational drag and the benefits of effective talent and energy management on your overall productive power.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. ” Meanwhile, skeptics highlight Amazon’s lack of expertise in health care, a sector that many deem curiously resistant to the competitive forces that characterize the retail and web services markets in which Amazon has thrived. jamie jones/Getty Images.

Health Care 9

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

million businesses and individuals worldwide, I believe the law weakens the economic power of encryption and subsequently the nation’s ability to create jobs. It is the backbone of the digital economy that contributes up to 8% of the GDP of G-20 economies. market accounts for more than $1 trillion.). Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

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 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8