Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This time, nearly every country is entering the discussions with a legitimate commitment to cut carbon. And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago. What will be the likely outcome out of the talks? For example, the U.S.

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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. CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. General Electric is a good example.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. From these, they learned to stay committed to the market, protect their margins, make some selective investments, and wait for the recovery.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. He decided to leave Phillips to commit to the cause of fighting blindness — a risky decision for a 43-year old. Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. In essence, the fortunate firms took on more debt, committing the business to a stream of cash flows and expenses far into the future to pay for their losses. In the U.S., Start-ups in particular, which almost always start small, are big contributors to economic growth.

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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. Some, like the development of specific technology for a new product, largely benefit one firm. And it’s not just short-term investors that like buybacks and dividends.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Instead, it would serve as a connector, recruiting local business leaders to commit to helping entrepreneurs. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. Unamano’s purpose wouldn’t be to raise cash and spread it around. Because the defining vision had been Helena’s, she became the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Remember the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund’s landmark commitment to run down its coal industry holdings. Look around, and it is clear that the vortex is forming in multiple arenas, among them the worlds of science, technology, business models, and, crucially, money. ” So in what medium is the carbon vortex forming?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. states ), committed to a 600% increase in renewable energy by 2020. Let’s dive in.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

There are legitimate concerns about China’s poor track record with regard to the transparency and governance of its institutions, not to mention its history of corruption and nepotism along with its lack of a commitment to human rights, intellectual property rights protection, and environmental quality. Undermining U.S.

Banking 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

There's a growing middle class, expanded GDP, and general optimism in the region. The Americans took over through investments in science and technology; today, the greatness of the U.S. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology. Throughout human history, new ideas have built nations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s true of GDP. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. Almost everybody is bullish, expects the market to go up, and is fully committed. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Indeed, India subsequently suffered a dramatic drop in its GDP growth rate, which fell to 6.1% It most recent GDP growth figure has fallen to 5.7%, and part of that, too, can be attributed to the policy move from last November. Of course, it also helps that the term “disruptive” is frequently attached to such technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Every country committed to action in the form of the Paris Agreement. Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. As prices dropped, companies noticed, and corporate purchases and commitments to clean energy grew. Then came 2016.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

The aim of innovation policies, by contrast, is to foster the development of technologies that don’t yet exist and whose business models and markets are unknowable. Organizations capable of inventing these technologies must be attracted or built, and the result of their labors must be channeled into economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Several blue-state governors have already announced their commitment to emissions reduction, while red states are considerably less likely to prioritize climate action. Still, these coastal states are a powerful force in national markets, containing 26% of the nation’s population and producing 30% of its GDP.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8