The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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 study suggests that people with a high MPC tend to be younger and without a college education. The findings are important, not least as the U.K.

Crisis 128

Crisis GDP Policies Bottom-up 128

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

Where would your 401K be, if central banks withdrew life support for banks? How steep is a college education this year (hint: on average, 10-15% more than last year)? Here's a question: What if, just maybe, it's our way of life itself that's a bubble? How are weekly grocery and gas prices doing?

GDP 19

GDP Price Hedge Banking 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. Khan Academy has upended the education sector by offering free tutorials on multiple subjects as short videos via YouTube. So Khan Academy launched KA Lite , an open-source software that delivers its educational content without internet connectivity.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The plan is expected to outline policies intended to ensure that China continues to see average annual GDP growth of 7% through this decade, the growth rate required to meet Premier Li Keqiang’s stated goal of doubling GDP by 2020. What Needs to Change. The first is the rural land ownership.

GDP 8

GDP Fixed Assets Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

does better for Africa when it supports talented Africans and offers scholarships to educate them in its elite universities. has educated some of Africa's great legends. The education has helped, but the aid model has not worked well. The African diaspora has played key roles in the development of the continent.

AIDA 11

AIDA AIDAS GDP Education 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I don't know what sexy acronym our leading investment banks' rock-star economists will come up with next, but I hope their indicators will start to factor in whether a large population is being harnessed or whether it is seething youth bulge, and whether economic growth is coming at the cost of ecological sustainability.

Banking 15

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The research found that each extra year of secondary education increases a woman's potential earnings by 25% on average. 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.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

For example, the gains that IT contributed to the GDP of the Netherlands in 2014 were wiped out by the even larger cost of cybercrime. That’s bigger than the GDP of 75 countries combined. Brazil is apparently the place to go if you’re in the market for some banking malware.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

growth in GDP. James Mwangi, CEO and managing director of the Equity Bank and chairman of the Equity Group Foundation, is focused on driving African development and creating opportunities for prosperity. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5%

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Solutions should trend toward entertainment, education, and social networking, and they can be location specific. Characteristics: These cities tend to have high population growth and high growth rates in GDP per capita, demographic and economic tailwinds that help to boost returns. This also might be done through PPP arrangements.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

There is also some banking, and media interests. Poland on the one side and Russia on the other are both in the low twenty-thousands in GDP per capita, and Ukraine is officially at $7,298. That’s why they’re not quite as rich, because there wasn’t quite as much money to be made. The East has this old industrial base.

Politics 8

Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

In fact, private capital investment, an even larger ticket item than R&D, has also been increasing and is at historically high levels of GDP. We don’t advocate for corporate investments in all the public goods corporations rely on—the roads their trucks drive, the schools that educate their future employees, and so on.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

With an increase in Japan’s female employment rate, the country’s workforce would expand by more than eight million people—and its GDP would grow by as much as 13 percent.* Industries with the highest have more female-dominated workforces and include health care, education and retail industries (43 to 47 percent of leaders are women).Industries

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. Nearly all of these practices run counter to conventional banking wisdom, which holds that to be efficient a bank must consolidate operational activities and centralize decision making on matters like pricing and lending.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% by 2020, according to the World Bank. China accounts for 20% of the world’s population, 11% of the world’s GDP, 14% of the world’s R&D expenditure — but less than 2% of the patents granted by any of the leading patent offices outside China. in 2002, and should touch 2.0%

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The Australian based bank ANZ offers another example as it expands throughout the Asia Pacific. Cynics might well say that in educating people about the workings of small business loans or mortgages it is just expanding its market. The anti-malaria program in Mozal was profitable. It might think to partner with NGOs or UN agencies.

Development 12

Development Porter Banking Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2013

On the OECD''s list , only Mexico and South Korea devote a smaller percentage of GDP to family benefits. Higher education costs students more in the U.S. Sure enough, the level of educational attainment in the U.S., In general, U.S. also has just about the least supportive parental-leave policies in the developed world.

Health Care 8

Health Care Incentives Policies Real Estate 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. I had an opportunity to catchup with Sramana and we talked about the program.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) There are also more institutions and infrastructure for training managers, such as MBA programs, executive education, and certification programs. Many explanations have been offered. Those that have are gold.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

To the extent that inputs – such as R&D expenditures – are a proxy for innovation capacity, Europe, according to a June 2015 report by McKinsey Global Institute , spends 2% of its GDP on R&D, about the same as China’s 1.98%, but well behind United States’ 2.8%. of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The World Bank estimates that $158 trillion worth of assets are at risk from increased natural disasters. Many banks heeded the advice, pulling funding from coal. Finally, to educate the next generation of analysts, the CFA exam will now include a focus on ESG issues. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Our education and professional training systems have failed to keep pace. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age.

GDP 8

GDP Wilde Intangible Assets GAAP 8

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. The Digital Economy as a Leverage Point for Public Education.

Politics 9

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9