Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services. Hence, a richer pool of expertise, experiences, and perspectives can create positive outcomes for the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). GDP growth a year across the period. GDP growth a year across the period.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

economy depends on technological progress, but recent data suggests that innovation is getting harder and the pace of growth is slowing down. The context for technological development was very different a century ago. Fathers’ incomes were positively correlated with the probability of becoming an inventor.

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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

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

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

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

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 21, 2016

The two reports – one by a subcommittee of the new National Science and Technology Council , and a second on AI and R&D — were prepared with remarkable speed, especially relative to the traditional pace of government. And somebody reminded me that the space program was half a percent of GDP. Here are the highlights.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It helped spark new levels of interest in Africa by the international business community, and companies in a range of industries—from consumer goods to financial services to technology—have since expanded their African footprints. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. 4% of US GDP). Some of those transfers can be avoided through the widespread use of technology that is already available.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

is integrally tied to maintaining our historical lead in high technology. Adding to the concerns is a perception that American firms are outsourcing so much R&D that it will only add to the erosion of high technology industries. Second, R&D expenditures are growing faster than GDP, especially in manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

But once we find them, we should direct giving not toward the programs but toward the organizations' fundraising and development operations so that they can multiply the funds available for programs. It lumps fundraising in with finance, human resources, leadership training, technology, and other administrative functions. How could it?

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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

By keeping jobs simple and focused; by equipping associates with (now) state-of-the-art check-out technologies; and by not imposing rules or protocols that would limit how much workers can talk with customers and adapt approaches to service, the chain invites its associates to make the most of their roles "on stage."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

A study by McKinsey projects that in a “full potential” scenario in which women participate in the economy identically to men, $28 trillion dollars (26%) would be added to the annual global GDP when compared to the current business-as-usual scenario. The — seemingly cynical — objective? We just want them in the fight!

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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. In retrospect, not very much.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

After all, India’s growth has slowed to a crawl, with GDP expanding by less than 5% in the last two years compared to 9% per annum in the five years before 2008. Over the past five years, India developed a reputation for being the most corrupt of the major economies, but that should diminish under the new administration.

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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.

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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. However, remaining U.S. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, 710,000 fewer Americans work for multinationals than a decade ago, and their position in the U.S. GDP while undertaking 40.9% private-sector research and development. Their shares of compensation and exports were already falling in the 1990s, and then fell by more in the 2000s. economy is smaller by most measures.

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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., Small business owners wear many hats, but similar principles apply. 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. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. And that means being in as much of the developing world as possible.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Over recent years, governments too have increasingly begun to realize that focusing on GDP growth alone does not necessarily lead to improvements in living standards of their citizens. Put simply, what’s good for increasing GDP may not be good for the long-term betterment of society. Here are four observations that stand out.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. It’s stated mission is to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia.” billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8 Still, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Facebook, Google, and Apple have 17%, 19% and 23% women in their technology staffs, respectively. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

We took the English proficiency scores for 70 countries, representing a sample set of nearly 1 million English language learners, and ran them against more than 800 World Development Indicators, finding high correlations between English ability and key indicators of innovation. Japan and South Korea are in a similar position.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. The Amazon Go store allows a customer to simply swipe their phone over a sensor upon entry and then relies on an array of sensor technologies to distinguish between the consumer actions of picking up a product, placing it in a cart, or returning it to a shelf.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) But is all of that changing?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In our Digital Evolution Index (DEI), we place them in the “digital south” which means the full deployment and adoption of online systems is still in development. ” Among its other ambitions, a July 2017 State Council document aims to position China as the world’s AI leader by 2025. billion citizens.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. The SOEs produce 33% of China’s GDP and account for 20% of its jobs; the central government controls one-third of the SOEs. the EU, and Japan have agreed to develop “joint action” on China’s subsidies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s true of GDP. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. At that point if you took a survey of what the outlook was, you’d get an overwhelming positive response the day before it falls on its face. They are not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve already mentioned the historic Paris agreement, but there are more positive steps worth noting. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

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