2016 Development GDP Technology 
Strategy Driven
MAY 11, 2016
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. Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2016
Then came 2016. In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. For most of 2016, the world moved quickly on climate. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5
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. 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. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2015
The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 6, 2016
A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. Of late, it is China, not Silicon Valley, taking the lead in developing mobile technologies.
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