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

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

People will be augmented by increasingly capable machines acting as digital working partners and assistants, further requiring ongoing skills development and evolution. Broadly distributing income gains will then translate productivity growth into GDP growth. Other options are also less than desirable.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. So what are we to do?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training. 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.

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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

MAY 12, 2017

labor market is like an aging athlete; it is taking longer and longer to recover from recessions. The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

multinationals, it now invests far more heavily in the growth markets of the BRICS. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. This finding was consistent and robust across industries, headquarters locations, international expansion markets, and company size.

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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. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Equally important are bold reforms in workforce education and training systems.

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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. billion in its associates through higher wages, better benefits and enhanced training.

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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? Minimal professional training? 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.

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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. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 10

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.

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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. In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

s Human Development Index and the standard economic measure of per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress. Many wealthy societies have low human-development scores (e.g., The contrast between the U.N.'s Which societies display the best Technik today?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Discussion abounds in the development sector today about the best ways to empower the poor. 5% of GDP over six years. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.” And we may have found a way to do this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

In recent years, however, the ability of our research ecosystem to sustain a leading global position has come into question, especially as new competitors emerge, such as China, which churns out huge numbers of new scientists and engineers and increases its research and development (R&D) expenditures at a 20% annual rate. About 15.7%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

And somebody reminded me that the space program was half a percent of GDP. There are two ways to grow the workforce: 1) by training students at home, and 2) by importing talent from abroad. This depends partly on how long it takes to develop talent domestically. However, developing the Ph.D. ” The U.S. and China.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While it’s tempting to group China and India together as a block of emerging digital markets, they offer several important distinctions, especially for international entities and countries looking to invest. It is also the world’s largest market for e-commerce.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Last year, we established a values-based care team, which seeks to eliminate unnecessary practice variation by developing evidence-based care paths across diseases and to improve comprehensive care coordination so that patients move seamlessly through the system, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits. percent in 1960.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

He has presided over an economic and social rebirth, with Rwanda making dramatic gains in health and development indicators ( watching its recent progress on Gapminder is a remarkable sight). Rwanda is winning international awards and marketing globally, and tourism is booming. Or are you going to wait and see how it develops?

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