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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 McKinsey and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have estimated that in 50 metropolitan areas worldwide, a rapid transition to advanced mobility systems could yield $600 billion in societal benefits through 2030.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Data from the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

And at that time, the United States had a public debt/GDP ratio of around 65% — a number that has since passed 100%. According to The Economist , the world's governments currently hold debts of approximately $45 trillion (relative to a world GDP of $65 trillion ). Nearly every major democracy is now struggling with public debt.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. For several decades after World War II, economists used statistical techniques to build increasingly complex models to forecast key macroeconomic variables, notably, GDP growth, inflation and unemployment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

That Greece with a population of a mere 11 million and a GDP of $300 billion (only 2% of the Eurozone economies) can create systemic risk for the world speaks volumes about the downside of global interdependence. It faced a 21% prime rate on its floating debt, falling oil prices, and recession in the developed countries.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In a relatively short time, venture-backed companies have grown to account for over 20% of US GDP today. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. The best VCs have successfully identified major industry disruptions before they occur.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Within weeks there was $50 billion in business deals involving foreign companies, including the Airbus agreement (worth $25 billion) to sell 118 planes, and Italy’s state rail company’s $5 billion pact to develop the local rail network. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, remaining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

US business already are spending heavily on research and development – data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) even shows an uptick in US business investment in R&D. We should also question the assumption that investor preference for quick returns limits managers’ ability to invest in the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% private-sector research and development. Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7% capital investment, shipping 71.1%

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

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? At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) But is all of that changing?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The economic gains for developing countries have been extraordinary. This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% The fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, ushered in a new era of globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect. Mexico and Brazil alone account for over 60% of Latin America’s GDP and most regional revenue for multinationals. growth in real GDP. When it comes to Brazil, the economy is picking up.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We can’t expect managers to focus primarily on anything other than building a thriving, profitable enterprise. If an individual developer sets out to make an app that is better for kids, it may or may not gain any traction; if Apple makes this issue a priority, an entire ecosystem will shift. The same is true of Facebook.

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