Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. The long-view trajectory of electric vehicles suggests a future where electrons will power more cars than carbon compounds. Education drives technology. The value created by Facebook and a few other tech IPOs exceeds the GDP of most African regions.

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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. A faster pace of adoption.

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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 Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers.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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

In a new Accenture survey (titled Reworking the Revolution , which will be published on January 23 rd ) of 1,200 C-level executives worldwide, 75% say that they are currently accelerating investments in AI and other intelligent technologies. The Technology Optimists. The Utopians. The Productivity Skeptics.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Without a doubt, providing members of linguistic minority groups with access to technology in their native tongues is very important. Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. of the world''s GDP. of the world''s GDP. billion in 2030.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. A payment of cash to Eurozone households of 3-5% of GDP would probably suffice to generate a recovery.

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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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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, 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.

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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. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

and Germany the richest and most technologically advanced nations in the world? and Germany, for instance, have well over 300 Nobel Prize winners in science and technology whereas India and China have a combined total of less than 10. Emerging economies are expected to account for as much as two-thirds of future growth in world GDP.

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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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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. Earlier this year, I received an invitation on behalf of the Tata Center for Technology and Design and the Department of Mechanical Engineering to speak at MIT about my work on reverse innovation.

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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. CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure.

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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. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data? Overall, Graetz and Michaels conclude that the use of robots within manufacturing raised the annual growth of labor productivity and GDP by 0.36 ” Solow’s quip crystallized a frustrating disconnect in the 1980s.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

So he founded AfriConnect, creating Zambia's first fully wireless internet access network, taking advantage of WiMAX and modern technologies less used in the north but well adapted for Africa. It's a society where men have accepted that women can exercise power. Consider the payoff.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. It is the continuous obligation of economic policy to match increases in productive potential with increases in purchasing power and demand. Wage growth has not kept up with productivity growth; labor’s share of GDP has fallen and capital’s share has risen.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., Throughout the continent — and this is true throughout other emerging markets too — millions of people are glued to their cell phones.

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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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Give the courts the power to shut down networks assembled for cybercrime such as those involved in “distributed denial of service” (DDOS) attacks. For example, the gains that IT contributed to the GDP of the Netherlands in 2014 were wiped out by the even larger cost of cybercrime.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

” Rapid technological advance in computers and automation has led to a huge fall in the quality-adjusted price of capital equipment. Firms with a cost or quality advantage have always enjoyed higher market shares. By contrast, the new behemoths of our age capture a much larger fraction — if not all — of their market.

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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. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. 4% of US GDP). Some of those transfers can be avoided through the widespread use of technology that is already available.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% An anonymous survey shows that over half the executives believed that China would have a bigger economic power than the U.S. in 2002, and should touch 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

There are many theories as to why — globalization, technology, changes to public policy, and the decline in unionization — and just as many theories on what to do to help narrow the income gap. How do you think about that mission, given the fact that wages and jobs seem to be struggling to keep pace with profits and GDP?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013. Six years after the global recession began, many parts of the world are still struggling to achieve growth.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. They employ 12.3

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Characteristics: Most physical and institutional structures are already in place in these megacities, but with fast-growing populations and severe congestion, there is an opportunity to create value by improving efficiency and livability, and there is a market of customers with cash to pay for these benefits. The downside?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In an earlier age, “general purpose technologies” such as electricity and communications networks were recognized by economists as their own category because they provided vital inputs for all kinds of businesses, revolutionized the way business was conducted in general, and literally redefined what it meant to live in modern society.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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