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. So what are we to do? Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The plan is expected to outline policies intended to ensure that China continues to see average annual GDP growth of 7% through this decade, the growth rate required to meet Premier Li Keqiang’s stated goal of doubling GDP by 2020. What Needs to Change.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have. That was down from 9.7%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Since 2000, for example, Rwanda has racked up average annual GDP growth in excess of 8%—exceeding 12% during some quarters of the Great Recession. Liberia is also a standout—averaging over 8% GDP growth in the past five years, and over 10% in the past year in spite of the crippling influence of Ebola in the region.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Third, make sure the teams working on the project have incentives that are aligned with the project's goals. GDP growth isn’t actually all that good a predictor of income growth for ordinary working households." So even while GDP growth ticks anemically up in developed countries, workers don't feel better off.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

China is intent on maximizing access to and control over the world's natural resources and it will turn to developing nations to secure them. They know how to contemplate 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year programs and achieve year-on-year GDP growth that averages no less than 8 percent. China thinks in long-term timeframes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In the US, we achieve some of these goals for some of the people, but none of these goals for all of the people. US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5 In developing countries, the challenges are greater and the manpower more limited to meet them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In this spirit let me introduce you to just such a report: Networks for Prosperity: Achieving Development Goals through Knowledge Sharing ( here is a pdf ), just published by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Leuvan Centre for Global Governance Studies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Throughout the world, countries at all levels of economic development and with all types of political systems have embarked in a creative search for the elusive goal of universal coverage. By December of 2010, 40 million people were enrolled in it, and the country is on track to achieving the goal of universal coverage this year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. These costs are significantly higher for U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” Goals can range from lead generation or gaining access to decision makers to actually selling products or services — measured against the expense and opportunity cost of that event.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. UjuziKilimo , a Kenyan startup, uses big data and analytic capabilities to transform farmers into a knowledge-based community, with the goal of improving productivity through precision insights.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

To identify the internal factors that distinguish successful and unsuccessful ventures, we divided respondents into two groups: winners, whose expansion efforts met business performance objectives such as sales, profit, and market share goals, and losers, whose efforts failed to achieve goals. Publicly reinforcing stated goals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? 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. Lack of childcare?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

This helps to explain why Greece has one of the lowest license and patent revenues from abroad as a percentage of its GDP, as well as one of the lowest contributions from high-tech product exports to its trade balance. In the long term the goal must be broader: to create an economy built around innovation, one that embraces uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

An effective starting point is to break cities into four segments across two distinctions: legacy vs. new cities, and developed vs. emerging economies. Segment 1: Developed Economy, Legacy City. Implications for entrepreneurs: Denizens of developed legacy cities have discretionary income. Segment 4: Developed Economy, New City.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

How can leaders develop a specific view of the industry- and firm-level implications? Here, too, the directional impact has been analyzed credibly, with estimates ranging from 3%–9% of GDP loss. ” From the map, combine various values to develop multiple scenarios. Keep talking about progress against goals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid. Deep debts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

GDP is masking deeper issues. In most developed nations, we find that being self-employed is associated both with higher overall life evaluation and with more negative, daily emotions such as stress and worry. Social status, social relations, daily structure, and goals all exert a strong influence on people’s happiness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ending extreme poverty by 2030 is the BHAG – the big, hairy audacious goal – of our generation. Discussion abounds in the development sector today about the best ways to empower the poor. 5% of GDP over six years. While skepticism abounds, momentum is on our side, with poverty rates falling in every region of world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Lloyd Blankfein recently told a TV audience that income inequality is “very destabilizing” and that “too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.” Nearly every developed nation with less inequality than our own has a strong labor movement. Rising inequality reflects two trends.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. All managers need to develop this ability to see around the corners up ahead. He developed a tenacious, risk-taking mentality, which led him to unique entrepreneurial opportunities. The companies noted in this study had combined revenues of $4.2 Work With a Generous Purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Way back in 1960 – when Singapore was still a developing nation focused on the most basic needs like housing and clean water – the government introduced user fees for clinic visits, recognizing that individuals need to feel invested in their health-care decisions. Today Singapore spends only 4% of GDP on health care, versus 18% in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. If Unamano was to meet the strategic goal it had set out last year—to open affiliates in 25 countries by 2020—why wouldn’t it consider the city?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% private-sector research and development. If this goal is not achieved, those who will ultimately suffer most from a less competitive United States will be its workers and their families. 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

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Furthermore, there are three fundamental structural factors to be mindful of as we understand the Indian context: India’s ties to cash are strong, even by developing country standards. The problem is that RBI chose a bank-led model over a telecoms-led one to achieve its financial inclusion goals. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. That would, in effect, boost GDP per worker from $120,000 to $141,000. The goal, of course, isn’t to put 21.4 GDP could grow by $3 trillion — and the actual figure would likely be higher. .” share was $32 trillion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Now think about how companies approach their community development and CSR programs. In some parts of the world government mismanagement of community development (deliberate or otherwise) has led to civil strife, sometimes resulting in armed conflict, creating a security scenario where business simply cannot continue to operate.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

The Trans-Pacific talks have involved 11 developed and developing Pacific Rim nations with a combined GDP of $40 trillion,and which recently got a jolt of energy and complexity when Japan (GDP=$6 trillion) joined the negotiations. This authority expired in 2007. The TPP hopes for similar effects.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Promoting innovation is also one of the eight key reform priorities in the “383” plan being circulated by the State Council’s Development Research Center. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% Their primary goal is employment and job creation, not disruptive innovation that may be risky but could create shareholder value.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. The short story is that we have less room than before.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

computing and mathematical jobs are held by women, consistent with the data that around 26% of the STEM workforce in developed countries is female. In developing countries, those differences are even greater. in the least developed countries. Of course, this story is bigger then any one business goal.

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