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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. “If a company is willing to learn from other sectors then that is really powerful.”

Company 125

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 125

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

billion people aged under 20, which will put a significant strain on the workforce if things are not changed, as the population shift will begin to put pronounced pressure on GDP growth rates that could result in global economic power struggles. This demographic shift is likely to see an estimated 2.37

Report 124

Report Policies Globalization GDP 124

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

For instance, the ratio of patents to GDP has been in decline in the United States for years, while the cost for each patent is on the rise. It’s no surprise that the percentage of startups that are profitable when they list on the stock market is at its lowest point since the dotcom bubble of the 1990s. A decline in disruption.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

This study sharply contrasts with many of the existing indices that measure women's potential, which tend to paint a gloomy picture of victimhood, especially in emerging markets. Booz estimates, for example, that if female employment rates were to match male rates in the United States, overall GDP would rise by 5%.

GDP 12

GDP Globalization Politics Benchmarking 12

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 10

Marketing Decentralization Policies GDP 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Corporate executives with risk exposure in China would do well to follow the Chinese stock market very carefully as it is one of the best leading indicators of business conditions over the next one to four quarters. And right now, the Chinese stock market continues to flash multiple warning signs of a sharp economic slowdown.

Marketing 14

Marketing GDP Price Sharpe 14

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The ongoing unrest and power vacuum in Egypt illustrates what happens when the old “freedom from” system is not followed by a sustained effort to introduce institutional frameworks that gives citizens the freedom to live (or work) in a better, more fulfilling manner. 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 8) Measure HOW, not ‘How much.’

How To 110

How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Industry Objective 8

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 13

Marketing Film GDP Media 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Consumer demand in all markets, aided by technology, will drive disruption in the health care industry. The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries.

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

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 12

GDP Planning Cost of Capital Banking 12

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

APRIL 18, 2013

Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. He found that speakers of English and Chinese had the most purchasing power, followed by other languages used within major world economies, such as Japanese, Spanish, and Russian. of the world''s GDP. of the world''s GDP.

GDP 8

GDP Company Niche Marketing Globalization 8

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

JANUARY 9, 2015

The simplest way to boost demand is to give power to central banks to transfer cash in equal amounts to all households. Quantitative easing (QE) by the Fed, Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, has involved asset purchases equivalent to more than 20% of GDP. How could this work in practice in a modern economy?

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 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

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. was recording its GDP in hundreds of millions of dollars — not billions.

GDP 10

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

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% As inflation rose in the 1970s — because of labor-union muscle, two powerful oil shocks, printing money, and other factors — this view gained adherents. To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year.

GDP 9

GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

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 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

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

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

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

JULY 25, 2016

trillion in private sector GDP. Replace counterfeit “strategies” with real market identity. But although all of these things are important, they aren’t a strategy, and they’re insufficient for defining who a company is to its market, relative to its competitive set.

Company 8

Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The icing on the globalization cake is that such innovations are scalable not only across other emerging markets, but more importantly, they can be scaled up for the developed world. Emerging economies are expected to account for as much as two-thirds of future growth in world GDP. Reverse innovation is an important strategic priority.

Innovation 15

Innovation Telecommunications Globalization GDP 15

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

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 4, 2011

The belief that the economy drives the stock market is common knowledge; it's Investing 101; the idea gets pounded into investors' heads, over and over again, by various pundits, daily. But please allow us to suggest this: Belief that the GDP and other economic measures drive stock market trends is completely and utterly false.

GDP 99

GDP eBook Short-term Marketing 99

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

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

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

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It's a society where men have accepted that women can exercise power. Zambia's government, too, is finding that women are a lever to growth, prosperity, market penetration, reputation and sustainability. Goldman Sachs has reported that the USA could improve GDP by 9% by reducing its gender gap. Consider the payoff.

Market Penetration 15

Market Penetration Wireless GDP Education 15

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.

GDP 8

GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 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

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