Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. That is the reactive approach to economic development. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. They are playing development to win.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors. The modeling and simulation relies on two important features.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value. For cities, we analyze nearly 3,000 of the world’s largest cities by population that together account for 67% of global GDP.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

The context for technological development was very different a century ago. For instance, in 1880 most inventive activity was the result of inventors operating outside the boundaries of firms. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. was so innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Especially in the world's most fragile states, economic development is critical to stability. Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. In comparison, the U.S.,

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% MGI has identified sufficient opportunities to boost productivity growth to 4% in the 19 national economies of the G20 group plus Nigeria, which together account for 80% of world GDP. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 For example, despite all the froth about how companies need to accelerate growth in emerging markets, three-quarters of the U.S. executives surveyed said they will continue to invest heavily in their home market, which is a largely mature and slow-growing economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. A further overrepresentation of the actual market size is determined by methodological inconsistencies. Cuba has been mired in stagnation for nearly two decades , with the regime unable to generate higher productivity.

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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. Today’s model is using African diasporas where companies hire native Africans living abroad and then send them to the continent to expand their operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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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.

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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. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. 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

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Price changes (of currency and goods) can be observed nearly in real time, whereas fundamental macro variables such as GDP and its components become available with just a few months’ delay. Multiple and contradictory plausible outcomes require firms to develop more options, better preparedness, and higher resilience.

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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.

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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. This will shape agricultural markets in ways we have not seen before. lending that is more generous than market lending) and interest rate caps discourage bank lending.

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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. For example, a U.S. Run scenarios.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

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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

JUNE 10, 2013

And you should develop a keen eye for the difference between "exploring a difficult path" and "wallowing around.". Some data is inherently inaccurate (GDP forecasts); other data becomes inaccurate through processing errors. Third, analytics is essentially about developing a deeper understanding of how the world works.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

According to another study , more than 40% of Fortune 500 companies operating in 2010 were founded by immigrants or their children — including some of the most well-known brands, from Apple and IBM to Disney and McDonalds. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. You may not think of yourself as an immigrant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. In a separate paper , my coauthor and I find that community banks in developing and emerging economies reduce lending after disasters because systemic loan defaults deplete bank capital. In the U.S., Challenge risk financing conventions.

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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? The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid. UK Uncut is self-organizing demonstrations against mobile operators and banks.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. What about the costs of cash in developing economies, where cash use is much more prevalent? While the overall costs of cash usage in all these markets are daunting, the U.S. Much like the U.S.,

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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. shares of the global operations of U.S.-based

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