Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Earlier this week, Nigeria ascended to the position of Africa’s largest economy following a recalculation of its GDP by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. computer software engineer and computer programmer positions. Gender inequality is a reality.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

For instance, the ratio of patents to GDP has been in decline in the United States for years, while the cost for each patent is on the rise. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States. A decline in disruption. So why is the entrepreneurial image more myth than reality?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. Leadership, if it’s anything, is about creating meaningful, positive change. It’s common to hear someone say about the U.S., “We We have the best health care system in the world.” Based on what facts? According to World Health Organization stats, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. Where there is economic growth, there is opportunity, and the companies that can predict where growth will take place are better positioned to take advantage of it. That is the reactive approach to economic development. They are playing development to win.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Hence, a richer pool of expertise, experiences, and perspectives can create positive outcomes for the organization. Our empirical findings suggest that cultural heterogeneity, measured by either fractionalization or polarization, has a discernible positive impact on the growth rate of GDP over long time periods.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

There are multiple reasons to expect such increases in income inequality to cancel out and even reverse some of the positive effects of economic growth on well-being. The first set was composed of 16 developed economies such as France, Finland, Spain and Japan. Our data did not present unequivocal answers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

The economy is growing steadily, the unemployment rate is below 5%, and on GDP per capita America still is one of the richest countries in the world. The answer, according to the recently released Social Progress Index , is that the United States is not turning those positive economic numbers into basic improvements in the lives of citizens.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

The context for technological development was very different a century ago. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. Fathers’ incomes were positively correlated with the probability of becoming an inventor. was so innovative.

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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. Embracing positive indifference. Positive indifference is important for two reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. Estimates show that around 8% of China’s GDP growth is driven by the shift of resources from the public sector to the private. My own research with John Van Reenen has shown that GDP growth would be lower by between 0.43

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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. A race between firms.

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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 Some have chosen a wait-and-see approach, opting to watch mobility trends and develop policy responses as needed as trends play out. These complex dynamics put municipal authorities in a bind.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

After all, real GDP growth in China continues to hit rates near 10% year after year — and decade after decade! But China's biggest underlying problem is a structural one: It has a very under-developed consumer sector and is overly dependent on export-led growth at a time when its two major customers, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

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. Companies that want to benefit from the positive development path of some markets will have to adjust their strategies accordingly.

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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

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

While Director of the Computer Center at the University of Zambia he developed the country's first ISP, which was then spun off as a campus company. Upon his return, he discovered that development of the internet infrastructure had been slow. Goldman Sachs has reported that the USA could improve GDP by 9% by reducing its gender gap.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. It develops the talent inside, focusing on a few great things. Jobs invested $150 million in developing the iPhone ; Tim Cook has invested almost seven times that in Didi Chuxing. Investment in fundamental science, the R, has dropped from more than 2% of U.S. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

GDP growth in emerging markets is slowing. Sounds a bit like a variation on the "local positivity bias" Slate's Matthew Yglesias wrote about recently. "The euro’s future is in limbo. Uncertainty about sovereign debt threatens economic growth across the globe." MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE STATES.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

The bill hopes "to advance the mutual interests of the United States and Africa with respect to the promotion of trade and investment and the advancement of socioeconomic development and opportunity." The African diaspora has played key roles in the development of the continent. From Nigeria's Azikiwe to Ghana's Nkrumah , the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Indicators like gross national income (GNI) and GDP go up. We also found a correlation between English proficiency and the Human Development Index, a measure of education, life expectancy, literacy, and standards of living. Low and very low proficiency countries display variable levels of development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

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. the availability of lower quality, inexpensive goods produced in developing countries has increased over time.

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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 14, 2017

And yet, this aggregate number adds up positive and negative weather impacts, and masks the true extent to which abnormal weather harms individual businesses operating in utilities, retail, food processing, transportation, and construction, among other industries. These disruptions add up. alone, or 3.5%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

We look at this rating, and also investigate the extent to which people experience positive and negative affective states like enjoyment, stress, and worry in their day-to-day lives, as well as analyzing responses to more workplace-specific measures such as job satisfaction and employee engagement. GDP is masking deeper issues.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Terran Lane, a former comp-sci professor at the University of New Mexico, recently left his tenured position for a gig at Google, and he doesn’t mince words as to why in a spirited, anti-academia apologia on his Ars Experientia blog. For one, the IOC uses most of its revenue to develop sports throughout the world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% Thriving in business markets will require them to offer products and develop sales forces able to target Africa’s relatively fragmented private sector. from 2000 to 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. Investments made in improving these seven factors will pay dividends in both the short and long term by helping the company develop and sustain the culture and capabilities required for global success.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The only positive fallout has been a modest diversification of the local economy, with exports as a percentage of the province's GDP declining from as much as 85% in 2005 to a still-high 66% in 2010. That's why Guangdong's population of migrant workers declined by 3% every year between 2005 and 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. If women''s labor participation were closer to male participation, it would contribute $1T to GDP in emerging economies — women led businesses are key to this opportunity. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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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

APRIL 11, 2012

On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." Moving on to the pursuit of profit, which is baked in at every level of our economic and personal lives. "On

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

4% of US GDP). Some schools — such as MIT in Cambridge, MA, and Boston University — are on the cutting edge of developing new solutions. And, whether business or academia takes the lead in developing solutions, there are billions of reasons to get those solutions to market sooner rather than later.

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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

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.

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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." The hotels equip them with information.

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