The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

“This study provides governments of all countries an opportunity to start rethinking their policies on migration, workforces and economic development to address the challenges presented by demographic change.” ” Population changes. billion from its peak of 9.7 billion in 2064. but that this was due to change to 1.16

Report 98

Report Policies Globalization GDP 98

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. of respondents citing survival as a key challenge.

Company 99

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 99

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. That’s roughly, and remarkably, half of Germany’s GDP, amounting to about 9% of world exports that year. .” The number of unemployed has been halved over the past decade. With just 2.6

Marketing 13

Marketing Decentralization Policies GDP 13

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

A system of governance via rules and policies only tells employees what they can and cannot do; think of a restrictive social media policy that dictates what employees can and cannot type or tweet. Southwest’s culture and values — rather than any policies or procedures — gives rise to this type of employee connection-forging.

How To 110

How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Automation technology has come on leaps and bound in recent years.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

AI policy should be an urgent concern. government is not designing policy for general intelligence or “strong AI.” And somebody reminded me that the space program was half a percent of GDP. Combined, the two reports include eighty-eight pages and twenty-five recommendations. Here are the highlights. ” The U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

These days, many people agree that, just as the full measure of a man can't be taken by his banker, the full measure of a nation isn't reflected in its GDP. How might national economic policy be different? National policy would begin to take account of citizen wellbeing. In fact, in the UK, this has already begun.

GDP 11

GDP Social Capital Globalization Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

One of the trickiest challenges in India is to get the size of the market right. At first sight, the market will always look attractive. That translates into a seemingly vast market of 160 million people. ACK Media competed in the children's market, which epitomizes that disconnect. the need-to-have and the nice-to-have.

Marketing 14

Marketing Film GDP Media 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

China is already the largest market for robots in the world, based on volume. 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. billion to 2.2 billion full-time workers.

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

As I said at the time, it was a case study in poor policy and even poorer execution. The original reason given for the drastic demonetization action was to expose the so-called “black” market, fueled by money that is illegally gained and undeclared for tax purposes. Overnight, 86% of cash in circulation was voided.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

“I find that the unequal incidence of aggregate fluctuations in the labor market increases the aggregate marginal propensity to consume, providing a measurement for a key moment in a new class of heterogeneous agent models.” The paper highlights how recessions seldom affect workers, or indeed companies, equally.

Crisis 112

Crisis GDP Policies Bottom-up 112

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

The Union has unquestionably been instrumental in a very long period of peace, stability, and growth grounded in economic interdependence, open markets, and international cooperation. And without this deepening, market doubts on the sustainability of the euro can only grow. If recession is now in the cards, how can policy makers react?

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Politics Policies GDP 9

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Working Mothers’ Challenges Are Labor Market Concerns While many see it as better to exclude the working women labor force rather than make changes to the system to accommodate them, it is imperative to take the challenges of working mothers seriously.

GDP 98

GDP McKinsey Participative Report 98

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

But today this malaise is most acute in the euro zone , where demand has been depressed due to counterproductive fiscal policies. The policy response to the global financial crisis exacerbated and entwined these trends still further. With fiscal remedies on the sidelines, monetary policy had to take up the slack.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank followed broadly similar policies in reaction to the crisis, lowering interest rates and injecting liquidity. But they differed greatly in how far and when they applied these policies. Fiscal policy. But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

The economy is growing steadily, the unemployment rate is below 5%, and on GDP per capita America still is one of the richest countries in the world. The United States is one of the richest countries in the sample, ranking 5th out of 133 on GDP per capita, and yet is 19th in the world on social progress. So what’s the problem?

GDP 8

GDP Health Care Education Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Forget the deficit, monetary policy, stimuli, stock markets, corporations, taxes — that stuff makes my head spin (and apparently the economy as well). Small businesses constitute the majority of our GDP and have historically been the source of most new job creation. From 2000 – 2009, overall GDP grew by 17.8%

GDP 13

GDP Planning Cost of Capital Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Going back to the low-GDP growth, low-job growth path we were on in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis will mean stagnation—and continued rising discontent about incomes that don’t advance and income inequalities that continue to grow. Other options are also less than desirable. It will take time.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Analysts have already reduced forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% at the market's close on Monday (3/14), erasing more than $300 billion of equity value, and lost another 10.6% Japan's economic policy makers are being put to the test once again. for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% on Tuesday.

GDP 15

GDP Aggregate Demand Supply Chain Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

A major challenge in business and policy spheres is to understand the environments that are most conducive to innovation. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. The competitiveness of the U.S. One way to do that is to look to history.

Innovation 12

Innovation GDP Education Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. Countries' levels of global connectedness are impacted both by their domestic and their foreign policies.

Report 15

Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. So what are we to do?

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Global stock markets promptly floundered. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned. It predicts that the UK’s GDP will be significantly lower in 2030 — its central estimate is 6% — as a result.

GDP 8

GDP Long-term Merchandising Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. Doing so, however, produces insights on vital questions the answers to which are not yet (and may never be) reflected in GDP. Take, for example, citizens' perceptions of job markets.

Social Capital 17

Social Capital GDP Human Capital Education 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Saudi Arabia in particular is not only a major player on oil markets and within OPEC, but also the region’s largest economy that shares its vulnerability to sliding global oil prices with its smaller GCC neighbours. After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% of GDP in 2015 and 2016.

GDP 8

GDP Price Market Segmentation Short-term 8

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. percentage points of the 7.3%

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 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 14

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

America doubled down on a strategy of suburbs, automobiles, housing, and the debt-fueled trappings of a consumer economy, which worked like gangbusters, boosting GDP for the nation, creating millions of jobs, and swelling corporate profits left and right. Yeah, about that. There are tons of stats showing we're in a brand new world.

Management 15

Management GDP Retail Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

The chart above shows where cities fall according to Guzman and Stern’s measure of average startup quality between 2001 and 2003 — more on that in a moment — and compares that to their GDP growth from 2003–2014. in GDP 11 years in the future,” the authors report.

GDP 8

GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. In 2010, just under 11% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing, and manufacturing contributed 13% of GDP. We need new policies that allow American innovation to be scaled up and produced on American soil, by American workers.

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. But nations are catalyzing global winners and losers by the policies they make. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. No nation has a monopoly on great ideas.

GDP 11

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

News of the United Kingdom’s vote to Leave the European Union shook financial markets Friday, and signalled the start of potentially years of economic uncertainty for Europe. So there are a lot of long-term, constitutional policy issues that it’s going to take a lot of work to offset, set in motion by this.

Banking 9

Banking Short-term Long-term Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

labor market is like an aging athlete; it is taking longer and longer to recover from recessions. The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Merchandising GDP Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

current account deficit, which measures the gap between what the country takes in from export income, investment income, and cash transfers and what it pays out, peaked at nearly 6% of GDP in 2006 and was down to 3.1% of GDP in 2011. Treasuries, the dollar has been on a downward trend in international currency markets since 2002.

GDP 13

GDP Globalization Finance Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

A long-term framework for integrating Syrian refugees is a pressing domestic policy to head off tensions like these. That’s one reason why Turkey’s GDP grew by 2.9% But with the right policies, the spirit of hospitality that reigned in those early days can result in a better economic future for all involved.

Long-term 10

Long-term Safe Harbor Planning Constraint 10