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. Chief among these are access to capital, access to markets, and access to networks and skills development. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

GDP 14

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. The first is in regards to wages in the public sector, which as reported by the Cuban government stand at an average rate of over $7,000 USD per year. This has been driven by three factors: Lack of capital investment.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 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

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. billion people worldwide will use mobile health apps, according to a Deloitte report, 2016 Global Health Care Outlook: Battling Costs While Improving Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8

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. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. For the government, the annual value of under-reported taxes in the United States is $400 billion to $600 billion. If even half of this under-reporting is directly enabled by a cash economy, the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. 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., Firms applied for credit to finance recovery.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 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

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Rising import prices of some Marmite ingredients or production equipment may be to blame, but Unilever reports in euros, so without a price hike Marmite sales are now technically lower. The global structural slowdown in both productivity and GDP growth powerfully reinforces popular discontent with issues such as labor market dislocations.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

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 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

According to another study , more than 40% of Fortune 500 companies operating in 2010 were founded by immigrants or their children — including some of the most well-known brands, from Apple and IBM to Disney and McDonalds. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. You may not think of yourself as an immigrant.

Career 15

Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 9

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% of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. of revenues). Brazil’s Beef Industry.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

ExactHire - Leadership

AUGUST 19, 2021

Companies need employees now, and if companies do not meet their staffing needs to operate, doors will close—maybe permanently. Pandemic Job Market. A Brookings report published in March 2018 found that 45% of those released from prison did not have any reported pay in the first calendar year after they returned home.

Guidelines 52

Guidelines Review GDP Content 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. This frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics. In its latest report , Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies points to an “affordability crisis” in the U.S. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

Some data is inherently inaccurate (GDP forecasts); other data becomes inaccurate through processing errors. For example, far too many credit reports contain inaccuracies. For example, the assumption that home prices were uncorrelated across markets was a major contributor to the financial crisis. Who will be impacted and how?

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Uncertainty Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Luigi Zingales has observed , politicians are increasingly “pro-business” rather than “pro-market.” Another is that short-term oriented companies are so desperate for margins that they’re hollowing out their operations or eating their R&D seed-corn.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. 11/pad) for the cheapest imported sanitary pad can often be simply unaffordable.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the meantime, retail and wholesale markets have stalled around the country. billion annually in currency operations costs. The disruptive action did not originate in a small segment of the market; it was launched nationwide. Some early reports are suggesting that, indeed, it has had an effect. Related Video.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

But then T&T’s chief operating officer, Jim Zappa, had pulled her aside to tell her the shocking news: A garment factory in Bangladesh that produced and packaged merchandise for T&T and other retailers had collapsed in the middle of a workday. “What’s your view on keeping operations in Bangladesh?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Case Study Merchandising Hotels 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

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

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. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP. capital markets, and it increases the credit-worthiness of U.S. Further, U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. ” It’s part of a Robotics as a Service market that research from Allied Market Research estimated will be worth some $34.7

TCO 83

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 83

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.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Indeed, it’s GDP per capita of $72,700 marks it out as one of the wealthiest nations on earth. . The park, which has been operating for a decade, has created a free zone and business park to encourage multinationals to rub shoulders with researchers and startups to generate technology-driven businesses.

Resources 87

Resources Innovation GDP Education 87

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While it’s tempting to group China and India together as a block of emerging digital markets, they offer several important distinctions, especially for international entities and countries looking to invest. It is also the world’s largest market for e-commerce.

Airlines 10

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. To help investors evaluate their holdings, Morningstar launched sustainability ratings for 20,000 funds, and 21 stock exchanges introduced sustainability reporting standards.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 The score assigned to this component is an aggregate of scores earned by different clusters of inclusion-related indicators; the clusters that make up inclusivity are labor market inclusion, economic mobility, diversity and acceptance, and policies that promote inclusion.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The UK Treasury’s April 2016 report about the economic pain caused by Brexit, 200 pages long and generally well executed, is an example: It was dismissed as “gobbledygook.” At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. in the U.S., but our exports may decline.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8