Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. Foundational to this environment are access to healthcare, education, land rights and affordable childcare.

Globalization 13

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.

GDP 14

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

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. Nestlé announced plans to cut its staff in some central African countries, while Barclays’s new CEO is considering selling off the bank’s Africa assets.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 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.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 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. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a surprise in early November, demonetizing 500 and 1,000 rupee bank notes. Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.”

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. This frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics. In Kenya, half of the population uses M-PESA , a mobile payments solution that doesn’t require a bank account. To rein in these costs and deliver better care at lower cost, the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid. Banks would fail at lending and borrowing. Innovation atrophy. Deep debts.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 companies in the study generally view digital technologies as a way to streamline existing operations and improve customer relationships — not as an engine for growth. After more than five years of sluggish growth, U.S. to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S. Indeed, U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 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.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

In particular, the tremendous growth of Bangladesh’s ready-made-garment sector (RMG) – from 50 factories in the 1980s to close to 5,000 today, making up 13% of the country’s GDP – hasn’t translated to marked improvements in social protections and standards of living.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The unbanked pay four times more in fees to access their money than those with bank accounts, and they pay $4 higher fees per month for cash access on average than those with formal financial services. This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Farmers must also grow more on the land they currently operate through what is called “sustainable intensification.” 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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

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 27, 2015

Greece appears also to lose control of the €11 billion reserves of the Greek banking stability fund. It also made economic sense, allowing Greece’s GDP to grow, and thus ultimately pay the creditors, as Paul Krugman has repeatedly argued. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. This looks unlikely.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

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. Will that asset be operational or retain its value over the normal depreciation period? It’s not the first time economists have warned us about the costs of a changing climate.

Cost 8

Cost Real Estate Depreciation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The Bank of England will likely lower policy rates, or even adopt negative interest rates. Here, too, the directional impact has been analyzed credibly, with estimates ranging from 3%–9% of GDP loss. FTSE250) were indeed recorded in the first two sessions after the vote. by combining political uncertainty with lower volatility).

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

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 (!) Emotion Inspires Ongoing Development and Builds Community.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

OpenTable (a restaurant reservations service), Motivate (the operator of CitiBike, Bay Area Bikeshare, and others), and Luxe (a web-based valet parking service) are examples. 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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 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. billion by more than 7%.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. That would, in effect, boost GDP per worker from $120,000 to $141,000. GDP could grow by $3 trillion — and the actual figure would likely be higher. .”

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Here is a brief synopsis of what we missed: Under Chinese stewardship, a new and potentially disruptive player in the development banking landscape, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which was initially proposed in 2013 by President Xi Jingping, gathered steam. led World Bank ($2223.2 And once again, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 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. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf?

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

My company understands that we do not operate in a bubble. In some parts of the world government mismanagement of community development (deliberate or otherwise) has led to civil strife, sometimes resulting in armed conflict, creating a security scenario where business simply cannot continue to operate. But what about other companies?

Development 12

Development Porter Banking Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Every single customer can trust us to encrypt all of their files with bank-grade technology before we back them up to our cloud servers. It is the backbone of the digital economy that contributes up to 8% of the GDP of G-20 economies. -based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2013

So here is a mostly unscientific Independence Day list — compiled with lots of help from the databases of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , a.k.a. On the OECD''s list , only Mexico and South Korea devote a smaller percentage of GDP to family benefits. the OECD, a.k.a. In general, U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Incentives Policies Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

According to World Bank data , merchandise trade grew from 16% of global GDP in 1990 to 26% by 2008. Since then, it has been in steady decline and now stands at a little over 21% of global GDP. Political headwinds have almost nothing to do with the inability of merchandise trade to keep up with growth in world GDP.

Merchandising 9

Merchandising GDP Supply Chain Globalization 9

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.) We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

For example, a recently proposed Indian government policy on e-commerce and a similar order from the country’s central bank seeks to prohibit data on Indian e-commerce consumers from being stored outside India. Both China and India are key contributors to the world’s growing middle class.

Airlines 10

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10

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% every year until 2050.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

The SOEs produce 33% of China’s GDP and account for 20% of its jobs; the central government controls one-third of the SOEs. ” These subsidies build on years of Chinese state support for foundational industries like banks, oil, utilities, telecom, and construction. In recent years, U.S. Five years of U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. The DSM will facilitate data-sharing “safe harbor” agreements, bank licensing agreements, and uniform rules affecting digital traffic ranging from e-commerce to digital streaming across the EU.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. 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.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect. Mexico and Brazil alone account for over 60% of Latin America’s GDP and most regional revenue for multinationals.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Infrastructure spending as a percentage of GDP in the U.S. The plan rests on the funding of already-bankable projects (those which on their own will generate enough operating fees to repay both debt and equity investors). The Clinton campaign proposed a new infrastructure bank, to be capitalized by additional corporate taxes.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8