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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Returns management should be a major focus.

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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. But for women to succeed as entrepreneurs or as managers, other tools are useful, if not essential.

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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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How to Bring Apple's Overseas Cash Hoard Home

Harvard Business Review

The current setup for taxing the foreign operations of U.S. corporations allows them to defer taxes on their profits from international operations until they bring the cash back to the U.S. An economic distortion caused by the tax code — by which foreign corporations operating in the U.S. or whatever. are favored over U.S.-based

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Stock Buybacks Aren’t Hurting Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 We should also question the assumption that investor preference for quick returns limits managers’ ability to invest in the future. In fact, private capital investment, an even larger ticket item than R&D, has also been increasing and is at historically high levels of GDP.

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Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

Harvard Business Review

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% of the U.S.

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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. From 2007 to 2014, their R&D spending grew at an annualized rate of 8.5%, greater than the 3.7%