Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% The United States has its own money because the Federal Reserve can — and will — print unlimited dollars to avert sovereign default or rescue banks. It can beg the European Central Bank to lend it money.

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GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending. So one solution suggested by a growing number of economists in Europe is for central banks to “helicopter drop” money , and directly finance private sector spending. We need new policies.

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GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The idea behind the latest maneuver is that recapitalizing European banks will reduce the correlation between the creditworthiness of a state's banking system and the creditworthiness of a State itself. Many countries have taken large equity stakes in their banks. And market participants were initially thrilled.

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GDP Banking Bond Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

During the financial crisis, the world came to the apparently shocking realization that debt financing entails risks. trillion, roughly 10% of gross domestic product (GDP). Gross public debt is $14 trillion, or over 95% of GDP. Financial institutions, households, and governments all suffered because they had too much leverage.

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GDP Net Present Value Crisis Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Analysts have already reduced forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% Flooding money markets on Sunday (3/13) with ¥15 trillion (about $183 billion) was a sensible first step by the Bank of Japan, but the real challenge lies ahead. for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. on Tuesday.

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GDP Aggregate Demand Supply Chain Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

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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Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. Entrepreneurs often lack formal training in bookkeeping and may not have the experience or the knowhow to secure a bank loan.

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GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

to 8% GDP growth rate already is a significant slowdown from the nearly 10% annual pace at which China''s economy had been growing until last year. China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark. to 8% growth rate.".

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

Goldbloom founded the company after working as a macroeconomic modeler at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Treasury. growth in countries with debt/GDP of more than 90%, they came up with 2.2% The initial Reinhart-Rogoff research seemed to indicate a sharp dropoff in average growth after debt passed 90% of GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

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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Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. To better understand businesses’ financial preparation for and management of disasters, my colleagues and I partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to survey firms in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery.

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. Both governments have now injected billions into these ailing banks, to the detriment of their respective debt profiles. percent to 102.9

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Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

GDP shrunk this year by 5.5% Our horrendous public debt is compounding and the public debt to GDP ratio will soon hit almost 200%, a level that can force our country to default on a most of what it owes. Consumption continues to drop. Construction has decreased by 40% and small shops are closing at a rapid rate.

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Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

That Greece with a population of a mere 11 million and a GDP of $300 billion (only 2% of the Eurozone economies) can create systemic risk for the world speaks volumes about the downside of global interdependence. On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. Of the $48.5

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Crisis Banking Politics GDP 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. In Kenya, half of the population uses M-PESA , a mobile payments solution that doesn’t require a bank account. Traditional banks — with their monolithic business models and hefty fees — have been unable to crack this lucrative market.

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Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. However, remaining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Implications for city leaders: Leaders should loosen restrictions so that private finance can invest in improvements to physical infrastructure, to better use what already exists. Next, they can encourage commercial platforms for entrepreneurs to create services including data connectivity, banking, and insurance.

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Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. Earlier this year, they raised $325 million in the public markets and this month acquired BancABC , a bank with operations in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It’s neither.

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Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

And because banking sectors in developing countries give fewer loans to farmers (compared to the share of agriculture in GDP), investments by both farmers and large corporations are still limited. To attract more financing and investment in agriculture, the risks need to be reduced by governments.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense.

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Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

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. Many large banks, other financial institutions and some large manufacturing companies also had their own economic staffs.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Some past studies on climate economics, like the famous Stern Report a decade ago, assessed the macro-level risk to GDP as a whole. And the numbers these banks and academics are coming up with certainly help stir the souls (or wallets) of the investor community. We have no practice dealing with issues like this.

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Cost Real Estate Depreciation Long-term 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. A bill for an infrastructure bank , written in 2007, languishes in Congress due to lack of political support. National competitiveness Finance & Accounting Research & development'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

There is also some banking, and media interests. And some important reforms of state finances haven’t happened. 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. The East has this old industrial base. Is it heavily agricultural?

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Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. led World Bank ($2223.2 billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8 This new bank raises many questions. And once again, the U.S. is scrambling to catch up.

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Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. The battles may be over, but the war is just beginning. billion in 2012.

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GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

To the long, dismal list of fatally broken institutions — GDP, governments, schools, corporations — we can add the mysterious Libor , and its conveniently comfortable calculation. It's not about a bank. Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited. Whose rights are sacrosanct?

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

While most advanced economies claim to be "post-industrial", the plain fact is that capital-intensive, rapidly depreciating, high-maintenance, often downright self-destructive industrial age stuff still receives the lion's share of subsidies: oil, water, big food (or food-like products, at any rate), "banking."

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Incentives Depreciation Long-term Banking 15

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. This, of course, doesn’t mean that we discourage entrepreneurs to seek financing.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking. It’s true of GDP. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In 2015 real GDP per capita was $56,000 in the United States. The real GDP per capita in that same year was only $47,000 in Germany, $41,000 in France and the United Kingdom, and just $36,000 in Italy, adjusting for purchasing power. Each year, the United States produces more per person than most other advanced economies.

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Decentralization GDP Finance Incentives 15

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.) They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. Many explanations have been offered. helped to create the nation’s tech industry. (

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Multinational banks are in retreat, and even digital businesses such as Uber and Airbnb have found their business models undermined in several countries by regulations introduced to protect the domestic suppliers they compete with. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% Fourth are the broader demands for corporations to be socially responsible.

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Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Spain ran a surplus in 2007, and its total debt to GDP ratio was lower than Germany's. What got Europe into its current mess was pretty much the same thing that slammed the US economy: a real estate bubble financed by profligate private banks. The collapse of the safety net.

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Real Estate Banking Politics Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. The SOEs produce 33% of China’s GDP and account for 20% of its jobs; the central government controls one-third of the SOEs. They enjoy lower taxes and selective anti-trust enforcement to shield them from private competitors.

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8