Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

Recent headlines have focused on the debt ceiling , the recent credit rating downgrade , unemployment , and the other thorny fiscal challenges facing the United States. We should not take our eye off the really important ball: economic growth and the innovation process that underpins it. Though the U.S. This is what the U.S.

Politics 15

Politics Innovation Incentives Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. Innovating away from past exclusion.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. While their job may have been setting or applying strict credit policies in the past, they may now start to wonder whether their traditional credit rating models are still effective.

Uncertainty 309

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The Ming note is printed with the statement that it is "To Circulate for Ever" — quite a vote of confidence from the treasury, and presumably one necessary for such an innovative approach to payment and livelihood. In the end this money did become worthless.".

System 13

System Crisis Credit Rating Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Blockchain technology can also take networked business models to a new level by supporting a whole host of breakthrough applications: native payment systems that run without banks, credit card companies, and other intermediaries will cut cost and time from transactions.

Technology 8

Technology Cost Credit Rating Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

To begin with, quite a few parts of it are heavily concentrated at a global level (the credit ratings business, for example, or global investment banking), and many more at the national level (just six financial institutions account for 46% of all U.S. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

To begin with, quite a few parts of it are heavily concentrated at a global level (the credit ratings business, for example, or global investment banking), and many more at the national level (just six financial institutions account for 46% of all U.S. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

What effect does it have if we innovate? Bullock and Warren Persons of the Harvard Economic Service, who are almost completely forgotten now but briefly wielded global influence. He’s just a trend analyst. Fisher doesn’t think trends are important at all; instead he believes in causation. He tries to figure out how the economy actually works.

Open-book 8

Open-book Trends Hammer Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Even better, blockchains can spur local high-tech innovation. The Dubai Blockchain Strategy (disclosure: Vinay is the designer) envisions moving all government documents — more than 100 million documents per year — onto a blockchain by 2020, creating a new platform for innovation and huge cost savings.

Marketing 8

Marketing Technology Banking Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Only then might we achieve what Price has called “the principle of health care that Americans hold dear: accessibility, affordability, choices, innovation, quality, and responsiveness.” We need the equivalent of Consumer Reports for health care or Morningstar ratings for clinical services.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Insurance Quality 8