The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Ignoring the need While politicians increasingly like to adopt a hard line against immigration, the reality is that most developed countries are in dire need of it. Similarly bleak projections are made regarding the population of countries such as Finland. Such an attitude is not only elitist, but also illogical.

Skills 110

Skills GDP Analysis System 110

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

We love what they are doing, how they are doing it, and how much their work contributes to the world (and, okay, not incidentally our book project). The Legatum people reason that in order for keep the focus on our real priorities, we need to measure the other components of prosperity as carefully as we do GDP, profits, and individual income.

GDP 14

GDP Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

We estimate that automation could increase global GDP growth by 0.8% For that, additional productivity-boosting measures will be needed, including reworking business processes or developing new products, services, and business models. These economies thus have a major interest in pursuing rapid automation development and adoption.

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Hamilton Project reported that foreign-born working mothers with some form of college education were now participating more in the workspace, likely due to changes in the work authorization rules in the country. Such circumstances make a working mother’s challenges more evident.

GDP 98

GDP McKinsey Participative Report 98

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

The price of this fast-track, oil-fueled development has been the region’s high dependence on oil export revenues (and in the case of Qatar, also of liquified natural gas, of which it is currently the largest producer in the world). After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% of GDP in 2015 and 2016.

GDP 8

GDP Price Market Segmentation Short-term 8

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 We need to make better choices about the projects we''re investing in.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

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% It would take 80% faster productivity growth to fully compensate for the projected decline. China’s health-care spending has almost tripled in the past five years and is projected to hit the $1-trillion mark by 2020.

Globalization 8

Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Delivering Large-Scale IT Projects on Time, on Budget, and on Value (McKinsey Quarterly). 17% of IT projects go so wrong, they can threaten the existence of the company itself. Second, make sure you have the right internal and external talent on the project. And finally, double-down on stringent project management.

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Budgeting Bottom-up 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.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

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. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

In a similar vein, Google announced last year that it was supporting the Endangered Languages Project , an initiative to allow people to share resources and information about languages on the verge of extinction. Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use.

GDP 9

GDP Company Niche Marketing Globalization 9

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.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

So with a decade just ended, it is a good time to take stock of recent developments, and then look ahead to likely future management innovations. To gain perspective, it's often helpful to take a look back at the management processes developed in earlier eras. government, particularly in the defense sector.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections , the current proposed fiscal measures, if implemented, would automatically slash the federal budget deficit by $503 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. At present, some 32% of China's GDP can be attributed to domestic consumption. percent in November, down from 11.6

GDP 14

GDP Class Budgeting Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. This has been driven by three factors: Lack of capital investment. This is why U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

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.

AIDA 11

AIDA AIDAS GDP Education 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Since 2000, for example, Rwanda has racked up average annual GDP growth in excess of 8%—exceeding 12% during some quarters of the Great Recession. Liberia is also a standout—averaging over 8% GDP growth in the past five years, and over 10% in the past year in spite of the crippling influence of Ebola in the region.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy GDP Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. More than 15 percent of the country's investment goes into real estate, and around 12 percent of GDP comes from property-related industries. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

But, for example, our research found that oil and gas only made up 11% of Nigeria’s GDP in 2014, compared with 20% for construction. The region’s development will likely span several decades. Macroeconomic indicators like GDP size and consumer spending are also insufficient measures of market conditions.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger. Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

To really make a difference, private entrepreneurs and civic entrepreneurs need to match projects to specific circumstances. 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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. In May, AfDB shareholders elected former Nigerian agriculture and rural development minister Akinwumi Adesina as AfDB President.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

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.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

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. What’s at stake? Sometimes, we need to rein this in.

Conference 15

Conference Self-aware Diversity Participative 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

One consequence was that while the lives of ordinary Chinese improved at a pace perhaps unmatched in human history, the share of China’s GDP retained by the state sector and the political elite actually increased more, as they benefited disproportionately from Chinese growth.

Politics 8

Politics GDP Sharpe Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

AI isn’t a science project; it’s commercially important. And somebody reminded me that the space program was half a percent of GDP. This depends partly on how long it takes to develop talent domestically. However, developing the Ph.D. ” The U.S. needs to expand its AI workforce. and China.

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

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.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

US business already are spending heavily on research and development – data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) even shows an uptick in US business investment in R&D. In fact, private capital investment, an even larger ticket item than R&D, has also been increasing and is at historically high levels of GDP.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

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. competitiveness and growth in the 21 st century. .” They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” The Dreamforce 2014 homepage had a calculator that provided users with the projected ROI that their respective companies would gain from their presence at the conference. ” It’s shame, really.

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. They tend to see running a school as similar to managing a large IT project and believe if they focus on costs and deadlines, the rest will take care of itself. Five Types of Leader. billion and $7.6 billion and $7.6

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 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. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

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 he was now a postdoc working on a desalination project that he believed could solve South Florida’s water problems.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

The stakes are particularly high for cities, where urban infrastructure projects from mass transit to bridges , tunnels, housing, and hospitals too often exceed their budgets by enormous sums. The scale of the opportunity in engineering and project-management improvements goes well beyond project owners and the engineers they employ.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

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. ” What else needs to change?

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent. Time, whether measured by hours in a day or days in a career, is finite. Monitor it.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15