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

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The superstars tend to be more involved in global flows of trade and finance, more digitally mature, and they dominate the lists of the most valued companies, the most valued brands, the most desirable places to work, and the most innovative companies. counties, which account for 90% of GDP in that sector.

Industry 12

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Whichever way you look at it, the countries producing the majority of the next generation of workers are still the ones least able to help them develop. Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

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 trillion a year, on infrastructure over the next 18 years. There are three routes to getting there: 1.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. A payment of cash to Eurozone households of 3-5% of GDP would probably suffice to generate a recovery.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. was recording its GDP in hundreds of millions of dollars — not billions. And while most nations are inventive, few innovate.

GDP 10

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. They are acutely attuned to disruptive innovation, and their size makes them nimble.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Like Japan, China combines statist industrial policies with export-oriented development. Most important, China is developing in a far more challenging international environment than Japan faced in the second half of the 20th century. And like Japan, China has logged several decades of rapid economic growth.

Comparison 13

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

This growth, along with rising incomes in developing countries (which cause dietary changes such as eating more protein and meat) are driving up global food demand. To attract more financing and investment in agriculture, the risks need to be reduced by governments. Today, according to the most recent estimate by the UN , there are 7.3

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Economists and finance. Here a few notable examples. Economists and big data.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Donors are strongly urged to seek out the organizations with the best, most innovative programs and fund those programs. But once we find them, we should direct giving not toward the programs but toward the organizations' fundraising and development operations so that they can multiply the funds available for programs. How could it?

GDP 13

GDP Human Resources Finance Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Translation: The funds will be spent on causes like global development and global health. 100 million: Launch a venture fundraising movement to fund the most innovative fundraising ideas, fundraising entrepreneurs, and fundraising professionals. has remained constant at 2% of GDP ever since we've been measuring it.

Advertising 14

Advertising GDP System Public Relations 14

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

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 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

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

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. So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. And capital continues to expand.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Innovation and change. ” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In 2015 real GDP per capita was $56,000 in the United States. The real GDP per capita in that same year was only $47,000 in Germany, $41,000 in France and the United Kingdom, and just $36,000 in Italy, adjusting for purchasing power. Each year, the United States produces more per person than most other advanced economies.

Decentralization 15

Decentralization GDP Finance Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The economic gains for developing countries have been extraordinary. Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% They must now pay far more attention to innovation and politics. ”

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

There's a growing middle class, expanded GDP, and general optimism in the region. Africa has become a place where financial institutions are financing real estate projects. loses its abilities to create and innovate, within a generation it will cease to lead the world. depends on its excellent technical universities. If the U.S.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Education GDP Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It happens every time there’s a big announcement about a national or regional innovation policy that will lead us into the future: We are presented with schemes to strengthen intellectual property rights, enlarge the pool of risk financing, and upgrade the universities while pushing them to collaborate more with industry.

Policies 8

Policies Innovation Finance Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The benchmark, therefore, is a tool for policy makers, technology innovators, and others to evaluate progress and prioritize the gaps, thus enabling a dialogue among the key actors and a plan for action. It is the fifth largest in terms of GDP , and is one of the most globally connected of all major economies. Methodology.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10