Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. Doing so will allow policy makers to play a more proactive role in shaping what that future looks like.

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

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. For decades, African governments have used many policy instruments to improve farm productivity. Those that do look to leverage new technologies run into financial issues. hectares of farmland.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Winning in this environment requires more than new technology ; here are ten ways to become truly social in a world that is not just connected, but interconnected and interdependent: 1) Do away with one-way conversations. In a highly connected, social world, technological innovation advantages last for weeks rather than decades or years.

How To 110

How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

AI policy should be an urgent concern. The two reports – one by a subcommittee of the new National Science and Technology Council , and a second on AI and R&D — were prepared with remarkable speed, especially relative to the traditional pace of government. Here are the highlights. In only six months, the U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. With a good returns policy in place, your company can stand to benefit too. The best way to do this is to use scanning technology. Automate Everything.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In order to assess the future of retail, we need to understand the sector's current impact on our entire economy, and the direction that Washington is taking the retail industry with policies that are being shaped today. trillion to the GDP, or about one-fifth of the nation's total gross domestic product. Retail contributes $2.5

Retail 12

Retail Policies Supply Chain Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

We examined their automation potential today — what’s possible by adapting demonstrated technologies — as well as the potential similarities and differences in how automation could take hold in the future. trillion in wages are associated with activities that are automatable with current technology. Insight Center.

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services. Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently.

Long-term 10

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

And growth reduces the government’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which facilitates and cheapens future government borrowing. The problem is that population aging is itself a cause for a decline in both GDP and per-capita GDP. The active labor force declines over time, and so does GDP.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Health Care Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

economy depends on technological progress, but recent data suggests that innovation is getting harder and the pace of growth is slowing down. A major challenge in business and policy spheres is to understand the environments that are most conducive to innovation. The competitiveness of the U.S. One way to do that is to look to history.

Innovation 12

Innovation GDP Education Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The catch is that adopting these technologies will disrupt the world of work. Even if this were possible—and it may be as futile as King Canute’s attempts to turn the incoming tide—it would mean foregoing the beneficial productivity effects the technology would bring. Other options are also less than desirable.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

in the most radical technologies. by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. In 2010, just under 11% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing, and manufacturing contributed 13% of GDP. But the fairy tale that the U.S. Germany is just as good as the U.S. In the U.S.,

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

But today this malaise is most acute in the euro zone , where demand has been depressed due to counterproductive fiscal policies. The policy response to the global financial crisis exacerbated and entwined these trends still further. With fiscal remedies on the sidelines, monetary policy had to take up the slack.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. So what are we to do?

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

As I said at the time, it was a case study in poor policy and even poorer execution. When the policy change was announced, people were given until December 30, 2016, to return 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to banks, or else risk losing the value of them. Overnight, 86% of cash in circulation was voided. Four months passed. instead of 7%.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. Factor accumulation (capital and labour) thus accounts for about 60 to 70% of GDP growth.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

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. Nonetheless, with the right policies we can get the best of both worlds: automation without rampant unemployment.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

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%

GDP 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. in GDP 11 years in the future,” the authors report. By contrast, startup quantity is less correlated and not significantly linked once the city’s current GDP is controlled for.

GDP 8

GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Currently, the annual expenditures for research and development (R&D) amount to 0.67% of Greece’s GDP. to 3% of their GDP. And Tropical SA is focused on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. High-quality science needs to align with technology-based entrepreneurship. This is going to be a considerable challenge.

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

But nations are catalyzing global winners and losers by the policies they make. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. I've traveled around the world and have seen smart people everywhere.

GDP 11

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

asks Foreign Policy. It's a game-changing technology not merely because of its power, but because of its impact both on and off the battlefield." GDP growth isn’t actually all that good a predictor of income growth for ordinary working households." "Want to lead the free world?" Singer in this piece. TRICKLE DOWN PETERS OUT.

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Budgeting Bottom-up 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 4, 2011

Nigeria moved from a GDP of $35 billion to $207 billion within a decade largely because of massive investment from foreign business partners in information technology and banking. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology. This Act will be a win-win on both sides of the Atlantic.

AIDA 11

AIDA AIDAS GDP Education 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Like Japan, China combines statist industrial policies with export-oriented development. The United States, which needed allies against the Soviet Union, not only tolerated Japanese protectionism but also transferred advanced technology to Japan and subsidized Japanese firms. competitiveness. China, by contrast, is simply open.

Comparison 14

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 14

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

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. Just about every individual, company and sector of the economy now has access to digital technologies — there are hardly any “have nots” anymore.

Company 8

Company Technology Innovation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Not only does that give the BJP an unequivocal mandate for change, but also, it allows the right-of-center party to adopt a long-term perspective while making policy decisions. After all, India’s growth has slowed to a crawl, with GDP expanding by less than 5% in the last two years compared to 9% per annum in the five years before 2008.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

But technology has started to change that formula. As we move from a brick-and-mortar economy to one driven by innovation, it will be crucial for cities to facilitate job and economic growth by fostering established businesses, as well as the entrepreneurs who today are driving 50 percent of GDP and creating 75 percent of new jobs.

Content 8

Content Human Capital IAS Transportation 8

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. 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.

GDP 8

GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Foreign Policy reports in this intriguing list of the 10 most overlooked stories of 2012. Oil was discovered in the Congo worth about 28 times its GDP. How Google Plans to Find the UnGoogleable (Technology Review). Brazil became a net importer of people. EU member Cypress turned to Moscow for its bailout funds. On Facebook, Too.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing GDP Bottom-up Call Center 8

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

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Carew at the Progressive Policy Institute. It also doesn''t include people who are actively contributing to GDP by working as volunteers or interns — roles that have become increasingly attractive to cost-cutting companies, and to experience-desperate would-be workforce entrants.

Education 9

Education GDP Report Participative 9

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. CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. General Electric is a good example. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

more competition to reduce consumer prices, sharing international best practices, technology transfer, public-private partnerships) needed to boost the economy’s health. Companies need to confirm that their policies are compliant by consulting with an external sanctions lawyer. This dynamic can stall important change (e.g.,

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 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