The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2021

As companies fundamentally rethink ways of doing business that deliver growth, many are using advanced analytical capabilities to spot, respond, and target changing consumption trends,” Accenture says. This resulted in a boost to GDP of around 0.4%. The market for their software has exploded. Uneven distribution.

Innovation 130

Innovation GDP Long-term Short-term 130

HR Digest

JULY 5, 2021

Spending on worker transition has also continued to shrink as a percentage of GDP. It is critical to reverse the trend of declining public investment in worker training in poorer nations. IMPROVING WORK MARKET DYNAMISM. Today’s digital platforms can help match people with new jobs and reestablish vitality to the labor market.

Human Capital 122

Human Capital How To Incentives Human Resources 122

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. The Covid pandemic has undoubtedly been one of the most disruptive periods in most organizations’ history.

Company 128

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 128

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Grounded in findings from the Gallup World Poll, Clifton shows how the current job creation trends could land China as the world leader by the year 2040. Those things destroy cities, destroy job growth and destroy city GDP. More money, jobs and GDP turns on who is named manager than on any other decision,” says Clifton.

Books 228

Books Review GDP Entrepreneur 228

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Latin America is a modern marketer’s dream, and not just because of its size. The region will soon represent 10% of the global population and 9% of global GDP, with 640 million customers. It also has the fourth-largest mobile market in the world, with social media adoption even surpassing that of the United States.

Marketing 8

Marketing Trends Software Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 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. And a couple of companies have told us they use the Prosperity Index as a resource when they assess the potential of new markets.

GDP 10

GDP Social Capital Globalization Entrepreneur 10

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The upward trend has not been supported by a similar growth in childcare resources, with a Zippia report indicating that approximately half of the U.S. The UN Women website states that by increasing female employment in OECD countries to match the levels presented by Sweden, GDP could be boosted by over $6 trillion.

GDP 98

GDP McKinsey Participative Report 98

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

There is an important proviso: that economies sustain high economic growth and dynamism, coupled with strong trends that will drive demand for work. Broadly distributing income gains will then translate productivity growth into GDP growth. Other options are also less than desirable.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

China is already the largest market for robots in the world, based on volume. Declining birthrates and the trend toward aging in countries from China to Germany mean that peak employment will occur in most countries within 50 years. We estimate that automation could increase global GDP growth by 0.8%

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. of the world''s GDP. More recent data from Internet World Stats displays a similar trend. Yet, a prominent British linguist, Nicholas Ostler, highlights the same trend. One of those conditions?

GDP 9

GDP Company Niche Marketing Globalization 9

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. Consider the global trends cited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in a recent interview with HBR. Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend. So what are we to do?

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

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. But the trends say otherwise. Yet the U.S. in Sweden and 2.3 Yeah, about that.

Management 15

Management GDP Retail Automotive 15

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

JULY 19, 2017

6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

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

AUGUST 27, 2015

The worldwide trend of rising economic inequality applies not only to individuals. Economywide ROIC has trended downward since the 1980s, falling from above 6% in the mid-1960s to 5% in 1980, then to 3% in 1990, and to only a bit more than 1% by 2010. What are the underlying drivers of this trend? There are many.

ROIC 8

ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

The policy response to the global financial crisis exacerbated and entwined these trends still further. But the ownership of financial assets is highly concentrated and the effect was to compound the existing trends of wealth and income inequality, with muted effects on demand. This policy is also fairer.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Median income has stagnated for decades and mere "recovery" probably isn't enough to do much about it, because GDP isn't concerned with who gets what. As I've noted , GDP has long decoupled from more meaningful measures of welfare, like the ISEW or the GPI, that begin to measure what matter to humans, not just sociopaths in $7000 suits.

GDP 19

GDP Hypercompetition Offshoring Long-term 19

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. The United States, for example, has a serious problem with its trade deficit which needs to be solved.

Report 15

Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

But some forecasts focus too much on macro data, like GDP, urbanization, and population growth. Measuring Marketing Insights. Consider a few examples: Trends in religious growth are one of the best predictors of fashion-related categories. With the growth of big data, it is tempting to hope that forecasting will get better.

GDP 8

GDP Fashion Education Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Sure, in a small minority of companies and industries, like the smartphone business these days, there is explosive growth, and if an analysis is done of past trends, it shows lots of opportunity for top-line growth. A similar thing happened with Febreze. However, odor masking was hardly an optimal solution for the consumer.

GDP 15

GDP Analysis Industry Trends 15

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. However, based on current trends, the bounty won’t be distributed evenly, and many jobs will be displaced.

GDP 8

GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 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. Smart companies are watching this trend.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

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 12

GDP Globalization Finance Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. Sokopepe uses SMS and web tools to offer market information and farm record management services to farmers. For decades, African governments have used many policy instruments to improve farm productivity.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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. But for those leaders paying attention to the broader trends, there will be many new opportunities to shape the game in their favor.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

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. Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

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

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Perhaps no term has so captured the global analyst community since the coinage of "emerging markets" itself. Clever turns of phrase can fool many except those who actually spent time in emerging markets and ask tough questions. In doing so, they often fail to ask the right questions beyond which acronym rolls of the tongue most easily.

Banking 15

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. This finding was consistent and robust across industries, headquarters locations, international expansion markets, and company size.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. Economists and big data.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

This is interesting from the perspective of the jobs report, but let''s not lose the bigger picture: the trend toward higher college enrollment among women dwarfs the decline in labor force participation. And most of them are female millennials." Indeed, while the Quartz slug reads "opt out," these women are actually doubling down.

Education 9

Education GDP Report Participative 9