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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Gender inequality, as we can see, is a reality and not only in the developing countries.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business Review

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. The modeling and simulation relies on two important features.

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Recessions Push People to Buy Cheap Things, Which Just Makes Everything Worse

Harvard Business Review

The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates. It took seven years for employment to return to its 2007 level. Then came the Great Recession. In the U.S.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP. One of those banks, Anglo-Irish Bank, lent 67 billion euros to the non-financial sector (real estate) in 2007 alone. In Spain, really only the scale is different. percent to 102.9

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Stock Buybacks Aren’t Hurting Innovation

Harvard Business Review

US business already are spending heavily on research and development – data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) even shows an uptick in US business investment in R&D. We should also question the assumption that investor preference for quick returns limits managers’ ability to invest in the future.

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How Reducing Gender Inequality Could Boost U.S. GDP by $2.1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. states could add more than 10%, and the nation’s 50 largest cities could add between 6% and 13% of GDP. trillion GDP opportunity would require the creation of 6.4 trillion in value per year, and it isn’t included in GDP.)

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.