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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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

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. For instance, in 1880 most inventive activity was the result of inventors operating outside the boundaries of firms. The competitiveness of the U.S. One way to do that is to look to history. was so innovative.

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Innovation GDP Education Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees. The Japanese employees in the Tokyo headquarters communicated in Japanese, the Americans in the U.S.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

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% The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. Why can the U.S. In 2011, U.S.

GDP 9

GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

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. By bringing them into their ecosystems, the larger competitive firms help instill management and operational best practices, and can accelerate and encourage technology adoption.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Farmers must also grow more on the land they currently operate through what is called “sustainable intensification.” And because banking sectors in developing countries give fewer loans to farmers (compared to the share of agriculture in GDP), investments by both farmers and large corporations are still limited.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

” This led us to wonder whether non-discrimination policies, specifically ENDAs, truly foster creativity in the workplace, and, if so, how. It also turns out to be great for the creativity that drives our business.” In our research , recently published in Management Science, we examine the effect of U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Human Capital Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Indeed, while Brexit remains prominent in UK headlines and policy circles, we observe in conversations with business leaders that most have shifted their attention back to their pre-Brexit challenges. Economic policy makers used to complain that they only have a rear-mirror view to steer the economy.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

In particular, the tremendous growth of Bangladesh’s ready-made-garment sector (RMG) – from 50 factories in the 1980s to close to 5,000 today, making up 13% of the country’s GDP – hasn’t translated to marked improvements in social protections and standards of living. This needs to change.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Superstar companies make lots of profit per employee, so as they become a bigger and bigger part of the economy, the overall share of GDP going to labor goes down. That suggests that changes in antitrust law or other policy-specific factors can’t be the primary driver. If policy isn’t driving rising concentration, what is?

GDP 8

GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

While these recent policy changes are important, they are unlikely to significantly alter the face of the Cuban economy. Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. Cuba has been mired in stagnation for nearly two decades , with the regime unable to generate higher productivity.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

The New York Times recently published a 2000-word article trying to divine the likely policies of Summers versus Yellen. We think relative monetary policy expertise is far from the key factor that should bias us toward one over the other. The financial industry accounts for about 8% of GDP, but about 32% of corporate profits.

How To 8

How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

economy operates at only 18% of its digital potential, and the sort of productivity gains that digital technologies should be enabling are not showing up in the broader economy. Some long-established companies including GE and Nike have successfully revamped their operations and strategies to become digital leaders. Why is that?

Company 8

Company Technology Innovation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

It also made economic sense, allowing Greece’s GDP to grow, and thus ultimately pay the creditors, as Paul Krugman has repeatedly argued. But the new Greek team consisted of an inexperienced and ambitious set of politicians and academics with little, if any, policy experience. Economy Government Policy Europe'

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Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. Companies need to confirm that their policies are compliant by consulting with an external sanctions lawyer.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. Earlier this year, they raised $325 million in the public markets and this month acquired BancABC , a bank with operations in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Like Japan, China combines statist industrial policies with export-oriented development. Between 1945 and 1990, Japan went from rags to riches, entering the ranks of the world's wealthiest countries and posing a direct challenge to U.S. competitiveness. And like Japan, China has logged several decades of rapid economic growth.

Comparison 14

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential. A manufacturer may relocate from a coastal community because the benefits to its operations of this location are few. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The Bank of England will likely lower policy rates, or even adopt negative interest rates. Here, too, the directional impact has been analyzed credibly, with estimates ranging from 3%–9% of GDP loss. FTSE250) were indeed recorded in the first two sessions after the vote. by combining political uncertainty with lower volatility).

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

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. That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Among countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), women on average spend about 2.4 One study found that if care work were assigned a monetary value, it would account for 10 to 39 percent of GDP. Such policies are often illegal but nonetheless remain in practice.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. GDP while undertaking 40.9% shares of the global operations of U.S.-based In 2009, they accounted for 24.4%

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The government’s pro-growth policies and abundant spending only increased corporate interest and multinational expansion plans. We are forecasting the Brazilian economy to recover only by mid-2017, with GDP growing at an average of a mere 1.0% In the early 2000s, Brazil became the darling of corporate investment.

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. A study found that 18% of school age girls in Rwanda, for instance, miss school because menstrual pads are too expensive.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

People up and down the income spectrum are dealing with changing cash withdrawal policies and empty ATMs. billion annually in currency operations costs. Moreover, the value of notes and coins in circulation as a percentage of GDP in India was 12.04%, compared to 3.93% in Brazil, 5.32% in Mexico, and 3.72% in South Africa.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. Not only is cash prevalent, its use as a percentage of GDP has been increasing by about 2% over the past two decades, possibly because of concerns about inflation. But because in the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. percentage points of GDP growth per year). We calculate that U.S.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP. Furthermore, looking at the data, it is difficult to make the case that U.S. Further, U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. ” In many countries, several websites or digital companies are blocked.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

If these critical transitions are mishandled, it could put many of them at risk, destroying economic value and severely handicapping a region that currently accounts for more than a third of the world’s GDP and an even larger proportion of global growth. Cultural norms are one big stumbling block.

Succession 8

Succession GDP Planning Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. With fewer breakthrough products to sell overseas, exports as a share of GDP have stagnated at 11%, while imports have soared, forcing the U.S. as global hegemon.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2013

This is, of course, exactly the opposite of what Americans should want, as a public policy matter. is the product of a mix of private- and public-sector decisions, not a straight-out result of government policy. On the OECD''s list , only Mexico and South Korea devote a smaller percentage of GDP to family benefits.

Health Care 8

Health Care Incentives Policies Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It is the backbone of the digital economy that contributes up to 8% of the GDP of G-20 economies. For example, Carbonite now operates several directly-owned or reseller-owned data centers deployed across Europe. Software-based encryption stands at the heart of e-commerce and other online transactions, nationally and globally.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

“Asia pivot” policy: Americans think of international relations like a movie, imagining that we can hit the pause button when we need to and then push play when we want to return. policy in Asia has become a “pivot away from China” and this position presents several key risks. Still, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8