The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Ignoring the need While politicians increasingly like to adopt a hard line against immigration, the reality is that most developed countries are in dire need of it. Indeed, while Dr. Ugur Sahin was lauded as an immigrant who helped to develop the Covid vaccine, as a car factory worker, his father would have received far fewer laurels.

Skills 124

Skills GDP Analysis System 124

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

economy depends on technological progress, but recent data suggests that innovation is getting harder and the pace of growth is slowing down. A major challenge in business and policy spheres is to understand the environments that are most conducive to innovation. was so innovative. The innovation sector was highly competitive.

Innovation 10

Innovation GDP Education Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Earlier this week, Nigeria ascended to the position of Africa’s largest economy following a recalculation of its GDP by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

While its benchmarks for national gender gaps on economic, political, educational, and health-based criteria are extremely valuable, it is essentially a compilation of the barriers to women's advancement. Women are the primary caregivers for children, the elderly, and the sick, and this burden hampers their economic development.

GDP 12

GDP Globalization Politics Benchmarking 12

ExactHire - Leadership

AUGUST 19, 2021

A study released by the Center of Economic and Policy Research in 2016 found that the economy loses out on roughly 2 million workers and approximately $80 million in gross domestic product (GDP) by not hiring justice involved job seekers. The need to hire former offenders is prevalent.

Guidelines 52

Guidelines Review GDP Content 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Without the ability to create knowledge through quality education, the sustainability of Africa’s new-found optimism remains questionable. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. The Legatum people reason that in order for keep the focus on our real priorities, we need to measure the other components of prosperity as carefully as we do GDP, profits, and individual income.

GDP 14

GDP Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The Chinese admire America, especially its entrepreneurial spirit and track record in commercializing innovation. America should not underestimate China's capacity to innovate. From gunpowder on, the history of Chinese innovation is strong. When the Chinese can no longer make easy money imitating, they will start innovating.

Innovation 15

Innovation Long-term Politics GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. Scarcer jobs and diminishing wages can only lead to greater inequality and global instability.

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. However, not all investments are equal.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services. But we suspected that diversity might play a different role at different stages of development. percentage points.

Long-term 9

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

We all know that education is an investment — but it’s not solely a personal one. The prosperity of nations and the health of economies is linked to the educational attainment levels and size of a skilled workforce. This was a major theme at the Global Education & Skills Forum last week in Dubai.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. Estimates show that around 8% of China’s GDP growth is driven by the shift of resources from the public sector to the private. My own research with John Van Reenen has shown that GDP growth would be lower by between 0.43

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. 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. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men. Women who have benefited from education and mentoring are experiencing "capital punishment."

Globalization 11

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. An effective starting point is to break cities into four segments across two distinctions: legacy vs. new cities, and developed vs. emerging economies.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. 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. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. as befits an already very developed, very rich economy. based companies at the forefront of most interesting digital developments. births per woman in 1980 to 1.8

GDP 9

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

For many decades, cities focused their economic development efforts on attracting industry. Dell and Harvard University put this question to several dozen experts at the 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit: Enabling Economies for the Future. Access to capital has grown, and the system for securing that capital has been transformed.

Content 8

Content Human Capital IAS Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We interviewed these 411 leaders, as well as those who work for them, analyzed their education, background, and experience and recorded their actions and impact using 64 investment variables and 24 performance measures over seven years. Academies have devolved decision-making powers enabling them to bypass local government.)

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse.

Creativity 15

Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. These resources can now be used to meet other basic needs, such as nutrition and education. Health systems are at a crossroads.

Health Care 15

Health Care Insurance GDP System 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? The research found that each extra year of secondary education increases a woman's potential earnings by 25% on average. Lack of childcare? Minimal professional training? Insufficient infrastructure?

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. 4% of US GDP). I was at my local gym outside of Boston early one morning and ran into a friend I hadn't seen in several months.

GDP 14

GDP Technology Cost Education 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. But the growth — while rapid — has not been broad-based.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

If you want to maximize the social effects of your donation, why would you buy, for example, $100,000 worth of great educational programming for inner city kids when the same $100,000 directed toward fundraising could generate enough money to buy $1 million worth of it? at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged.

GDP 13

GDP Human Resources Finance Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale the kind of breakthrough ideas that will begin to solve the huge social problems we face today. How do you monetize that?

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Advertising GDP Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion. Technology-enabled services are the backbone of this industry, and the fastest growing sectors have demand for high-end skills, such as mobile app development and data analytics, as well as middle-level skills, such as video production, copywriting, and financial analysis.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. GDP while undertaking 40.9% private-sector research and development. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4%

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. The limitations of GDP have long been recognized. Academics have also joined the post-GDP party. This past Friday, the U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers. Make sure your leaders have high-quality development plans. Wellins, Ph.D.,

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

When we think of innovation, we tend to think of smart, technically trained people sitting in a room coming up with game-changing ideas. But innovation is just as much a function of connections—of a person’s or team’s ability to access global information networks and work alongside others with relevant skills.

Innovation 8

Innovation Metrics Globalization Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8