Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal. GDP by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. The data in the graph above demonstrate the link between innovation, bureaucracy, and uncertainty. But Greece cannot stop there. National competitiveness Economics & Society Europe'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

They come from all regions and sectors and include global banks and manufacturing companies, long-standing Western consumer brands, and fast-growing U.S. For cities, we analyze nearly 3,000 of the world’s largest cities by population that together account for 67% of global GDP. times more economic loss today than 20 years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When the policy change was announced, people were given until December 30, 2016, to return 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to banks, or else risk losing the value of them. According to a Bloomberg report , banks were estimated to have received 14.97 Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. The two different types of research are complementary.

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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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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.

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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. Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

Globalization 13

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

And even if some firms have been stuck at the top of supposedly dynamic industries (Microsoft, Apple) for a rather long time, others have used innovation to rise rapidly (Facebook, Twitter). Overall corporate profits are at record highs of roughly 21% of GDP. GDP growth could hit nearly 5% in 2016. economic performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. Innovating away from past exclusion. China, and most countries of Western Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. So what are we to do? Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend.

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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. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

In turn, there’s less incentive to perform cross-disciplinary research, which, traditionally, has served as a catalyst for innovation. Of course, the private sector is fraught with innovation problems too. Unfortunately, he says, the lack of funding in the sciences has created a publish-or-perish mentality among his former colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. Innovation atrophy. The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

No sooner had Beijing's flame died than the global financial crisis took British debt levels above 60% of GDP, excluding public intervention in failing banks. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." Selling the Games promised to be just as difficult.

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Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

Economic uncertainty around the globe has raised concerns that consumers could take cash out of banks – especially in negative interest rate envrionments — and hoard it. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are already considering it , while the European Central Bank is considering getting rid of large-denomination bills.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Uncertainty 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. In the U.S., Our data include about 950 businesses.

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 Sounds good; “New investment in innovative technologies” makes a great headline for the next earnings call or annual report. But these investments are not the avenues to the robust growth that innovative technology offers. Innovation Strategic planning Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. The opportunities to innovate will differ greatly by segment. Yelp, Zillow, and Trip Advisor are examples of innovations in this context.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. To deflect attention from these challenges, the Cuban government has introduced various distortions into the country’s official economic statistics , which are used largely unaltered by entities such as the World Bank and CEPAL.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Businesses and governments will have to work together to increase productivity, encourage innovation, and improve integration in supply chains toward a sustainable global food balance. lending that is more generous than market lending) and interest rate caps discourage bank lending.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Last week PwC released its Low Carbon Economy Index 2012 report, which calculated one simple, powerful number: In order to meet the 2°C warming target, we will need to reduce the global carbon intensity (how much carbon it takes to produce every unit of energy or GDP) by 5.1% But constraints drive innovation. every year until 2050.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

growth in GDP. For example, Vox Capital — founded in Brazil in 2008 by three young social entrepreneurs — invests in innovative, high-potential businesses that serve low-income populations and contribute to the reduction of poverty. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. Investing in innovation capacity. of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S. Across the rest of Europe, the state of digital evolution has been mediocre and the pace of improvement, tepid. President Obama said it plainly in a recent interview : “We have owned the Internet.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

If you doubt this, take a look at the recent publications list of the World Bank , the U.S. You might well be surprised at both the mass of empirical data they gather and, on occasion, the innovativeness of a study's conception and underlying ideas. Department of Commerce , or the United Nations.

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NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

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. While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

This huge run-up — the latest spike began with EU''s botched rescue of Cyprus''s banks — has led to much talk of a bitcoin bubble. Since then the focus has moved on to inflation or, recently, nominal-GDP targeting. Then again, lots of important financial innovations start out like that. a year ago.

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Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The reasoning was that, without regulatory pressure, monopoly owners of communications networks tend to charge too-high prices that depress use of their networks and end up crimping innovation and economic growth. has instead banked on head-to-head competition between the cable companies and the telcos, each with their own last-mile wires.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) That’s the good news. Good relations with the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Until you ask yourself: how often, despite billions spent on "service," "creativity," "innovation," "changing the game," "motivation," "leadership," and assorted other magical buzzword-incantations, has something like the preceding happened to you, anywhere — ever? Just look at investment banks.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. That would, in effect, boost GDP per worker from $120,000 to $141,000. Here’s the arithmetic.

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