Coaching Tip

AUGUST 9, 2016

Alexandra Lienhard : So, as editor of the Financial Forecast and the Short-Term Update , what's the goal with the services you provide? After noticing the real GDP per person just dropped to its lowest level in more than 75 years, a major newspaper recently asked a slate of economists, "What's wrong with the economy?"

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The dangers of short-term thinking are well known. It leads to a chronic under-investment in projects with real long term value. It was commonly believed that short-term thinking was a major factor behind the financial crash of 2008. Yet in both banking and government this short-term attitude prevails.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. ranks only tenth in the world in terms of low infant mortality rates. I was angry because the national “debate” that we’ve had on health care over the past year was long on opinions and spin and very short on facts. Our job is to wake them up, my dear.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But how will AI impact the economy in broad terms? It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Of the 17 members of the euro zone, just three (Germany, France and Italy) make up more than three-quarters of the area's aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) of about €12 trillion. Its 20% rise in the past 18 months has cut Swiss GDP growth rates and provided a competitive advantage to companies in the euro zone.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We live in a world where productivity, a key pillar of long-term economic growth, has crumbled. The tradeoff between productivity and employment is actually less than it might seem at first sight, since the GDP bounce that productivity brings will raise consumption and hence labor demand, as it has always done in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

The most overt costs of war, including military spending and the destruction of capital, are of relatively short duration, but the costs borne by combatants, caretakers, and society last for many years. wars by Ryan D. wars by Ryan D. Edwards of the City University of New York.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Unsurprisingly, the collapse in oil prices since the summer of 2014 has raised concerns over the long-term stability of the GCC economies, even more so in view of what may yet be a prolonged period of low oil prices. After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% of GDP in 2015 and 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

For the first time, the US does not rank among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of overall prosperity. If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. For Americans, the headline is a simple if unwelcome one: the US is a nation in decline. Building on Robert F.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. Additionally, managing corrupt business practices often makes it difficult for MNCs to realize growth potential in the short term.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The unwillingness of the ECB to fulfill these roles telegraphs that Spain and Italy can indeed be forced out of the market once the perception returns that the sovereign cannot effectively guarantee its banking system regardless of any short term recapitalization. The ESM is 750 billion-with-a-B Euros. Is that a sound investment?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Last year there was significant movement by the financial community to push companies to look harder at climate change in particular, but also at other factors that matter to long-term performance, such as LGBT rights, economic inequality, and boardroom diversity. It’s also not clear how much attention CEOs pay to these letters.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. R&D spending falls into the long-term bucket. primary season.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Executives should build step-by-step long-term expansion plans, but avoid delaying entry as securing market share will become increasingly difficult. But, for example, our research found that oil and gas only made up 11% of Nigeria’s GDP in 2014, compared with 20% for construction.

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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. has terms imposed on it by creditor nations such as China. Still, 3.1%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. The short answer we find from our research is: No. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

GDP shrunk this year by 5.5% Our horrendous public debt is compounding and the public debt to GDP ratio will soon hit almost 200%, a level that can force our country to default on a most of what it owes. Consumption continues to drop. Construction has decreased by 40% and small shops are closing at a rapid rate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

While these investments don't create the short-term gains that business leaders have been trained to seek, they will create the supply of talent needed for our economy and society to thrive. Goldman Sachs found the association between GDP and medals was strongest, by far, in cycling, followed by judo, rowing, and swimming.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

In short, the middle is being squeezed, the top doesn’t spend enough, the bottom doesn’t earn enough, and the policy mix is fatally flawed. Quantitative easing (QE) by the Fed, Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, has involved asset purchases equivalent to more than 20% of GDP. We need new policies. This is not alchemy.

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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% To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. Why can the U.S. government borrow at some of the lowest interest rates ever, while Spain can only borrow at exorbitant rates that threaten to drive it into bankruptcy?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Since 2000, for example, Rwanda has racked up average annual GDP growth in excess of 8%—exceeding 12% during some quarters of the Great Recession. Liberia is also a standout—averaging over 8% GDP growth in the past five years, and over 10% in the past year in spite of the crippling influence of Ebola in the region.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Short of any singing, dancing, and costume changes, this sequence could have been taken from Bollywood, a movie industry widely known for its fantastical flights of fancy. Public policy for rooting out corruption calls for a systemic approach, with carrots and sticks to motivate cultural, institutional, and behavioral change in the long term.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Here, too, the directional impact has been analyzed credibly, with estimates ranging from 3%–9% of GDP loss. It is impossible to forecast precise impact with confidence, given that exit terms, timing, and knock-on implications are all uncertain. Determine the specific industry- and firm-level implications.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

How much control do policymakers have over what the economic fallout is — short- and medium-term? They have some control in the medium-term; they have very little control in the short-term or long-term. In the short-term, recession is pretty much baked into the cake for the UK.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In financial terms, and especially with regards to credit, governments are no different. In addition, Japan has roughly twice the debt to GDP ratio of the United States. The United States debt-to-GDP ratio, in comparison, is only about 1-to-1. But there is a fourth component where the government would fall short.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. “Small ball” can be effective in the short term. A main indicator of how widespread this plateau has become is the decline in corporate investment in R&D, the invisible infrastructure that supports true innovation. The less science, the fewer ideas for new businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

This helps to explain why Greece has one of the lowest license and patent revenues from abroad as a percentage of its GDP, as well as one of the lowest contributions from high-tech product exports to its trade balance. This suggests that in addition to short-term policy changes, Greece needs a longer-term cultural shift.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Where a business has engaged in “upstream” education, it has usually limited its involvement to short-term placements or CSR programs in the developing world. higher GDP per capita than countries with average literacy scores. It is over $100 billion (that’s over 5% of Indian GDP) each year.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Conversely, short-term international borrowing, especially in foreign currencies, should be treated with caution. For capital flows, the historical data suggest that policymakers should start paying attention when the absolute values of capital accounts add up to 3% of GDP and start getting worried when they exceed 4%.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 4, 2011

But please allow us to suggest this: Belief that the GDP and other economic measures drive stock market trends is completely and utterly false. Suppose you were to possess perfect knowledge that next quarter's GDP will be the strongest rising quarter for a span of 15 years, guaranteed. Would you buy stocks? Would you buy stocks?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. ” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. Publicly reinforcing stated goals. Others will require more deliberate planning and time to implement (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

I spent a few invigorating hours with Chris, who is a judge for our Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , in Boston last week to unpack a short course of some of the most important lessons from the book. On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

The Jones' family isn't impoverished (yet), but it is bankrupt in a deeper way: in terms of how it conceives of prosperity, wealth, and the common good. In other words, merely spending less on the stuff in my allegory — be they perma-tans or unnecessary health tests — probably won't cut it. Well, the answer's simple.

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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. In a bit of understatement, Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian , “long-term investors…would be better off in a low-carbon world.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

Contractionary policies may create a self-reinforcing spiral of decline that increases the debt-to-GDP ratio. Yet, while some EU policies are punitive or counter-productive, the strength of opinion of pundits long on conviction and short on detail seems to ignore the real root cause of the crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It has emerged as the world’s largest economy, although it’s still lagging well behind in world-class per capita GDP. Although China’s growth has been extraordinary, and its short-term prospects continue to be bright even in these turbulent times, deep challenges lie ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5 Electronic medical records, alignment on quality of care criteria and measurement of health outcomes and cost-effectiveness require up-front costs but also have the potential to reduce costs and improve health significantly in the longer term.

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