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Why Is Technology Not Producing Productivity Improvements?

The Horizons Tracker

The University of Toronto’s Avi Goldfarb, Joshua Gans, and Ajay Agrawal make the case for business process reengineering is the silver bullet in their latest book Power and Prediction. Official data reveals that while GDP grew by around 2.7% They argue that there are three core ways in which a technology can be used.

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What Fatherhood Can Teach Us About Leadership

LDRLB

[Editor’s Note: John Gerzema and Michael D’Antonio are the authors of The New York Times Best Selling Book, Athena Doctrine: How Women (And the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule The Future. All proceeds from the book support The United Nations Foundations’ Girl Up Campaign ( www.girlup.org ).]. Kinoya re-opened last November.

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America's Deeper Debt Crisis

Harvard Business Review

To begin with, America's gross public debt as a percentage of its GDP is around 98ish (aka, its debt/GDP ratio). How high would America's debt/GDP ratio be if we added these costs? But the not-so-secret dirty secret is that, well, so does GDP itself. You probably don't want to know.

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The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Still, it wasn’t until 50 years later that Edison opened his first power plant, and then 40 years after that, during the 1920s, electricity began to have a measurable impact on productivity. Even now, information technologies make up only about 6% of GDP in advanced economies.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship opens the door to women: Unlike in corporate management, there is no glass ceiling in a company you start yourself, which is why female entrepreneurs are flourishing. their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that's 40% of China's entire GDP). Not really.

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China Wants the U.S. to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff, Too

Harvard Business Review

They know how to contemplate 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year programs and achieve year-on-year GDP growth that averages no less than 8 percent. In our book, The Ten Trillion Dollar Prize , we provide rigorous analysis suggesting that China will achieve at least this level of annual growth, much of it supported by consumer spending.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5

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