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

N2Growth Blog

But beyond its functional capacities — from streamlining operations to nurturing customer relationships — lies an untapped reservoir of possibilities. True creative executives transcend the constraints of traditional business paradigms. While some see it as a job disruptor, others recognize its potential as a catalyst for innovation.

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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. Why do laggards not jump into AI?

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries.

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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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Reverse Innovation Starts with Education

Harvard Business Review

Since two-thirds of world’s growth in GDP is likely come from poor countries, reverse innovation is an important phenomenon. The constraints posed by serving the poor will push innovations toward high-performance, low-cost products that have the potential to transform everyone’s life — including customers in rich countries.

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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

We are forecasting the Brazilian economy to recover only by mid-2017, with GDP growing at an average of a mere 1.0% There are two key strategies that multinational executives operating in Brazil should consider. Second, corporations should take advantage of the unprecedented currency depreciation and localize their business operations.

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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.