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Amazing AI Facts That Could Change The World

Strategy Driven

It is a wonderful and unique technology that can transform our lives as well as business ideas. PWC believes global GDP will rise by 14% by 2030 due to AI. AI continues to be a growing source of startups and as technology evolves it will continue to grow. Venture capital for AI between 2013-2017 increased by 4.5%.

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What a Study of 33 Countries Found About Aging Populations and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

No surprise, then, that it poses serious challenges for the health care systems, pension schemes, and public debt management of modern societies. And growth reduces the government’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which facilitates and cheapens future government borrowing. The active labor force declines over time, and so does GDP.

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Is Europe’s Economy Really Sick?

Harvard Business Review

Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. But in 2013 it was comfortably beaten by Singapore and Hong Kong and by four other countries: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland. Well, it’s not about the people.

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How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data

Harvard Business Review

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. So we started digging. We pored over the surveys and documentation.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

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. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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Your Board Should Be Full of Activists

Harvard Business Review

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

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Bringing Global Philanthropy Closer to Home

Harvard Business Review

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. New philanthropists are using their capital in very specific ways to implement their plans; in a similar way they did in the world of technology or business. In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists.