HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Working Mothers’ Challenges Are Labor Market Concerns While many see it as better to exclude the working women labor force rather than make changes to the system to accommodate them, it is imperative to take the challenges of working mothers seriously.

GDP 98

GDP McKinsey Participative Report 98

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring. Understanding the most important management innovations of the past will inform how we continue to expand and build on our knowledge to improve the innovation process in the future and advance human progress.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

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.

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

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. We’re experts in team-based and participative systems.

Management 8

Management Business Model Class GDP 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. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

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. The third is the tax system. Which Management Style Will China Adopt?

GDP 8

GDP Fixed Assets Globalization Survey 8

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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GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

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. The barrier of entry into farming technology has dropped, as cloud computing, computing systems, connectivity, open-source software, and other digital tools have become increasingly affordable and accessible.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 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

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 11

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. s 21 million ) in its four-year tertiary education system. All through, Africa was on my mind as I benchmarked my new environment to what I left behind.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

We counter that managers who would see their businesses survive the next few decades of extreme economic volatility will need to develop some literacy about oil and its complex relationships with the economy. We have ample historical evidence that when petroleum expenditures reach 5% of GDP, recession typically follows.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The Chinese government's latest five-year plan emphasizes the need for long-term investment in research and development, to shift China from being "factory to the world" to being an innovation-driven, knowledge and service economy. Chinese policymakers know that for 50 years the United States has invested around 3% of GDP in R&D.

Innovation 15

Innovation Long-term Politics GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity. Economic growth of just under 5% a year would see consumer spending rise by 60% over the course of the next decade, even if consumption’s share of GDP doesn’t budge.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals.

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If more of them can be identified, developed, and appointed, we believe the whole education system will improve. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. Five Types of Leader.

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

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.

Crisis 12

Crisis Banking Politics GDP 12

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.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

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?

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

A systemic shock cutting across industries and borders, Brexit poses significant strategic challenges for business leaders as they navigate the fallout. How can leaders develop a specific view of the industry- and firm-level implications? ” From the map, combine various values to develop multiple scenarios. Run scenarios.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. But it is hard to be sure.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

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

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.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

The tragedy is that countless people died even though both workers and management knew something was wrong. Bangladesh has a markedly different socioeconomic context compared to other manufacturing centers like China, which has a relatively robust system of social benefits and protections. This needs to change.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

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. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Additionally, the national postal systems in India and Russia are distrusted, unreliable, and slow. And the fact that these markets are "emerging" presents more limitations, including the harsh reality of low spending power: GDP per capita in India is $3,900 and in Indonesia is $5,000 (compared to the US at $49,800).

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

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. Given the very high cost of continuous patient monitoring systems and paucity of nursing staff, vitals are monitored only three to four times a day in the general ward.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. Innovation atrophy. That's the Enronian economy in a microcosm. Deep debts.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

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. Following this foolish bank guarantee, Irish government debt has quadrupled to over 108 percent of national output as the government injects money into the banking system. percent to 102.9

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 And, if growth is mostly about gaining market share and developing new products, why is a substantial focus on investment to retain existing customers and make existing products and services more efficient? After more than five years of sluggish growth, U.S. to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Recent incidents with Japan and the air defense identification zone resulted in a very significant US response: trips by Secretary Hagel, President Obama, announcements on the US Defense Treaty pertaining to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands issue – ultimately leading to the US and Japan developing a much closer relationship. It was around 2%.

Long-term 8

Long-term Politics Globalization Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

We normally associate innovation with R&D, product and service development, and new "offers" to relevant markets. The vast majority of the workforce is focused in services — a sector that generates 85% of GDP output in the U.S. You might call this "supply-side innovation."

Innovation 13

Innovation Hotels GDP Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. What about the costs of cash in developing economies, where cash use is much more prevalent? It can be difficult to transport and is inherently insecure. retail businesses lose about $40 billion annually because of the theft of cash alone.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. This confusion is most apparent in the area of software, where very often the hard transition from the prototype (often little more than a rough idea) to the stably implemented mass-user system tends to be romanticized away.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

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). How organizations are changing.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

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.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8