The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

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. The Covid pandemic has undoubtedly been one of the most disruptive periods in most organizations’ history. Organizational agility.

Company 98

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 98

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 9, 2016

In part 2 of our in-depth interview with Steve Hochberg, Steve explains what else makes Elliott wave analysis so useful and practical. Back in the 1990s, his interest started broadening and he started developing this field called socionomics. Knowing where you are within a trend helps you see around the next corner. Related articles.

Marketing 70

Marketing GDP Letter Real Estate 70

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

of global GDP. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the analysis found that subsidies matter, but that better managed companies appear to respond to the external environment more intensely. The study assessed around 2,250 manufacturing companies from 38 different countries.

Energy 81

Energy Quality Banking GDP 81

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A new analysis, published in The Lancet , suggests that these fears may be unfounded, with the global population set to shrink in around thirty years time. the working age population of the world will change considerably, with immigration likely to be required to sustain things in many developed countries. ” Population changes.

Report 97

Report Policies Globalization GDP 97

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 16, 2021

The researchers developed a dynamic spatial model that includes factors that contribute to higher wages (labor market agglomeration), higher rents, the costs associated with moving, and other locational preferences. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4%

GDP 84

GDP Quality Media Incentives 84

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers. Make sure your leaders have high-quality development plans.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. Last July, after years of work, the Bureau of Economic Analysis declared that the U.S. The limitations of GDP have long been recognized.

GDP 8

GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

In case you skimmed too fast to get the point, here it is: that favored benchmark of national performance, GDP growth or GDP per capita, is a distortion of reality that guides us to decisions contrary to what people really want. What is seldom mentioned is that our economic statistics contain plenty of subjectivity.

GDP 14

GDP Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Policies 14

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

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Technical automation potential is also large in Europe: According to our analysis, more than 60 million full-time employee equivalents and more than $1.9 We estimate that automation could increase global GDP growth by 0.8% These economies thus have a major interest in pursuing rapid automation development and adoption.

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. It also summarizes patterns of connectedness at the regional level. Why does all of this matter?

Report 15

Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Our analysis goes beyond these well-known individuals. The context for technological development was very different a century ago. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. We also linked patent data to state- and country-level information.

Innovation 11

Innovation GDP Education Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. of the world''s GDP. In other words, according to his analysis, $12.5 Communication Customers Global business GDP' out of every $100 corresponds to someone who does not speak a major world language.

GDP 9

GDP Company Niche Marketing Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 Some have chosen a wait-and-see approach, opting to watch mobility trends and develop policy responses as needed as trends play out. These complex dynamics put municipal authorities in a bind.

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

We used a research tool called “meta-analysis” (essentially, a study of studies) to analyze 558 existing studies conducted over the last 35 years on work-related values covering 32 countries from around the world, including the United States, Brazil, France, South Africa, and China.

Diversity 13

Diversity Politics GDP Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Companies that want to benefit from the positive development path of some markets will have to adjust their strategies accordingly.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

GDP growth in emerging markets is slowing. Keeping up the grand new tradition of wild swings in both expert and public opinion about the state of the US economy, we balance the widespread despair of the latest jobs report with this glass-half-full analysis from Oxford Analytica. "The euro’s future is in limbo.

GDP 12

GDP McKinsey Wilde Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

China is intent on maximizing access to and control over the world's natural resources and it will turn to developing nations to secure them. They know how to contemplate 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year programs and achieve year-on-year GDP growth that averages no less than 8 percent. China thinks in long-term timeframes. trillion to $6.2

GDP 14

GDP Class Budgeting Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

But, for example, our research found that oil and gas only made up 11% of Nigeria’s GDP in 2014, compared with 20% for construction. The region’s development will likely span several decades. Macroeconomic indicators like GDP size and consumer spending are also insufficient measures of market conditions.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. A payment of cash to Eurozone households of 3-5% of GDP would probably suffice to generate a recovery.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

However, the more specific the information, the less likely it is that data will exist, especially in less developed markets. Remember: Don’t expect your approach to developed-market data to be applicable in emerging markets. YOY GDP growth in its April World Economic Outlook. Data can be biased for a variety of reasons.

Marketing 9

Marketing GDP Industry Objective 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Drawing upon the UK’s retail sectors for empirical evidence, we developed a methodology to assess and hedge the exposure of sales to weather risks. Accounting standards on disclosures do not help as weather is not explicitly listed in the risks for which a sensitivity analysis must be provided to investors. alone, or 3.5%

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

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. As a group, the largest U.S. These costs are significantly higher for U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5 Health systems in developing countries range from providing basic care to everyone to almost nothing to anyone, other than what they can buy out-of-pocket in the least efficient way. In developing countries, the challenges are greater and the manpower more limited to meet them.

Health Care 14

Health Care Innovation GDP Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A system whose development I’ve led over the past seven years harvests large-scale digital histories, encyclopedias, social and real-time media, and human web behavior to calculate real-time estimations of likelihoods of future events. The pattern only occurs in countries with low GDP that have low concentration of water in the area.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty GDP System Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. On the other end of the growth spectrum, analysis of a dataset from 350 micro finance institutions across 70 countries indicated lending to more women was associated with lower write-offs and lower portfolio-at-risk.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

So with a decade just ended, it is a good time to take stock of recent developments, and then look ahead to likely future management innovations. To gain perspective, it's often helpful to take a look back at the management processes developed in earlier eras. government, particularly in the defense sector.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Throughout the world, countries at all levels of economic development and with all types of political systems have embarked in a creative search for the elusive goal of universal coverage. So take a look at the social policies recently developed in Mexico. Health systems are at a crossroads.

Health Care 15

Health Care Insurance GDP System 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A system whose development I’ve led over the past seven years harvests large-scale digital histories, encyclopedias, social and real-time media, and human web behavior to calculate real-time estimations of likelihoods of future events. The pattern only occurs in countries with low GDP that have low concentration of water in the area.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty GDP System Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. Lack of childcare?

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

For the past five years we have produced the EF English Proficiency Index , an analysis of the state of global English proficiency. In particular: Countries with high English proficiency spend a significantly larger share of their GDP on research and development than those with lower English skills.

Innovation 8

Innovation Metrics Globalization Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

The costs do not correlate with levels of economic or political development. Countries in the developing world tend to have a greater tax gap and a greater degree of uncertainty about the reliability of the estimate of the gap. Developing countries have the largest tax gaps, with their shadow economies as large as 30%-44% of GDP.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

How can leaders develop a specific view of the industry- and firm-level implications? Here, too, the directional impact has been analyzed credibly, with estimates ranging from 3%–9% of GDP loss. Therefore each company needs to carry out (or take to the next level) its own specific impact analysis.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion. Technology-enabled services are the backbone of this industry, and the fastest growing sectors have demand for high-end skills, such as mobile app development and data analytics, as well as middle-level skills, such as video production, copywriting, and financial analysis.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Robust new construction in China and a soaring rate of urbanization promise unprecedented levels of consumption and overall GDP growth that should only invite greater confidence among foreign investors. By 2030, according to our analysis, there will be around 270 million more new urban residents in China. million people and 1.5

Class 9

Class Construction GDP Report 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Lloyd Blankfein recently told a TV audience that income inequality is “very destabilizing” and that “too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.” Economic analysis bears out the connection between strong unions and less inequality. Rising inequality reflects two trends.

Management 8

Management Business Model Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In a relatively short time, venture-backed companies have grown to account for over 20% of US GDP today. Money scales, time spent on analysis does not. The industry was born in its current form, however, when the first venture capital firms were founded in the middle of the twentieth century.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14