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How Managerial Quality Affects Energy Usage In Manufacturing Firms

The Horizons Tracker

In many ways, it seems like something of a no brainer for the sector to target emissions, as making their operations more efficient has productivity benefits as well as environmental ones. Fossil fuel subsidies are hugely important, as they amounted to nearly $5 trillion around the world in 2013, or 6.5% of global GDP.

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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Case in point: Ford is planning to introduce at least five new models after seeing a 33% increase in sales in the first half of 2013 in Nigeria.

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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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Non-Discrimination Laws Make U.S. States More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, urged the U.S. To provide evidence that the effect of ENDAs is causal, we controlled for a variety of company characteristics (such as size, profitability, and growth opportunities) and state characteristics (such as GDP, population, education, and political balance).

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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. Policy can help through measures like capital access programs, business accelerators, or tax incentives.

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Companies Shouldn’t Wait to Prepare for the Post-Brexit World

Harvard Business Review

The Canadian dollar, for example, depreciated 25% between 2013 and 2016, yet Canada’s trade balance remained virtually unchanged. Price changes (of currency and goods) can be observed nearly in real time, whereas fundamental macro variables such as GDP and its components become available with just a few months’ delay.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. Finding the right local partners.