Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Some past studies on climate economics, like the famous Stern Report a decade ago, assessed the macro-level risk to GDP as a whole. But this new report, by estimating the risk to all financial assets and portfolios, finds a powerful middle ground that should get investor attention.

Cost 8

Cost Real Estate Depreciation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. These firms were more than twice as likely to report that their access to credit had decreased since before Sandy. Younger firms were especially likely to report that their interest rates increased after the storm. In the U.S., Firms applied for credit to finance recovery.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 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

JULY 8, 2016

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. YOY GDP growth in its April World Economic Outlook. Greece’s actual 2015 growth was -.8%.)

Marketing 10

Marketing GDP Industry Objective 10

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. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Another is that short-term oriented companies are so desperate for margins that they’re hollowing out their operations or eating their R&D seed-corn. Corporate profits have risen relative to overall GDP. Corporate doings became a prominent feature of news reports, and successful CEOs became cultural heroes.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. This frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics. In its latest report , Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies points to an “affordability crisis” in the U.S. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

Some data is inherently inaccurate (GDP forecasts); other data becomes inaccurate through processing errors. For example, far too many credit reports contain inaccuracies. This is critical because your data factory will almost certainly operate outside the purview of the data scientist. Who will be impacted and how?

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Uncertainty Short-term GDP 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 14

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” billion annually in currency operations costs. Some early reports are suggesting that, indeed, it has had an effect.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs.

TCO 84

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 84

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. The business press puts a tremendous focus on technology and innovation, but what it doesn't do is put it into context.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Consider that three out of the four largest economies in the world in 2030 are expected to be in Asia; by 2050 , half of the global GDP will come from Asia; three of the top six trading partners for the U.S. China Business Council report that they anticipate double-digit revenue expansion in China, when the study was done in 2014.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Indeed, it’s GDP per capita of $72,700 marks it out as one of the wealthiest nations on earth. . The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship.

Resources 88

Resources Innovation GDP Education 88

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

China has 783 million smartphone users and, as reported by the Cyberspace Administration of China, had 469 million registered on a mobile payment platform in January 2017. In addition, the growing use of facial recognition technologies across China adds to worries about privacy and government over-reach. billion citizens.

Airlines 10

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The UK Treasury’s April 2016 report about the economic pain caused by Brexit, 200 pages long and generally well executed, is an example: It was dismissed as “gobbledygook.” Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. in the U.S.,

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8