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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. Organizational agility.

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Globalization Is Becoming More About Data and Less About Stuff

Harvard Business Review

Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

In a relatively short time, venture-backed companies have grown to account for over 20% of US GDP today. Still, being astute and agile does not guarantee immunity to disruption. The industry was born in its current form, however, when the first venture capital firms were founded in the middle of the twentieth century.