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Amazing AI Facts That Could Change The World

Strategy Driven

The demand for data scientists will be over 50% more than the supply, making it a VERY smart career path to follow. PWC believes global GDP will rise by 14% by 2030 due to AI. China Construction Bank. Agricultural Bank of China. Bank of America. Bank of China. JPMorgan Chase. Berkshire Hathaway. Wells Fargo.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank. If women''s labor participation were closer to male participation, it would contribute $1T to GDP in emerging economies — women led businesses are key to this opportunity.

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Are CEOs Really India’s Leading Export?

Harvard Business Review

A systematic analysis of mid-2013 data on the world’s largest firms by revenue, the Fortune Global 500, shows that at that time only three non-Indian firms were led by Indian CEOs: Arcelor Mittal (Lakshmi Mittal), Deutsche Bank (Anshu Jain), and PepsiCo (Indra Nooyi).

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Helping The Less Well Off Means Recessions Are Shallower

The Horizons Tracker

The author reminds us that in the past 11 recessions, while GDP fell by around 2% and unemployment rose by the same figure, this doesn’t tell the whole picture. The proposals were met with disbelief by the financial markets, with the value of the pound crashing and the Bank of England forced to intervene to prop up pension providers.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

This helps to explain why Greece has one of the lowest license and patent revenues from abroad as a percentage of its GDP, as well as one of the lowest contributions from high-tech product exports to its trade balance. Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, the UK, and Finland all have low uncertainty avoidance, high innovation, and low bureaucracy.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. For several decades after World War II, economists used statistical techniques to build increasingly complex models to forecast key macroeconomic variables, notably, GDP growth, inflation and unemployment.