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Unleashing AI’s Potential: The Imperative of Creative Executive Leadership

N2Growth Blog

While some see it as a job disruptor, others recognize its potential as a catalyst for innovation. True creative executives transcend the constraints of traditional business paradigms. AI provides the raw power and speed, and the creative executive molds this into innovative strategies, products, and services.

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Reverse Innovation Starts with Education

Harvard Business Review

Historically, multinationals innovated in rich countries and sold those products in poor countries. Reverse innovation is doing exactly the opposite. It is about innovating in poor countries and selling those products in rich countries. Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business Review

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors. Second is that returns for front-runners tend to be large.

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. Just to keep pace with anticipated global GDP growth, the world needs to spend $57 trillion , or on average $3.2 The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates that investment equivalent to 7.9%

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The Potential and Pitfalls of Doing Business in Cuba

Harvard Business Review

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. This has been driven by three factors: Lack of capital investment. This is why U.S.

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

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. A study found that 18% of school age girls in Rwanda, for instance, miss school because menstrual pads are too expensive.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations.

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