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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Executives should build step-by-step long-term expansion plans, but avoid delaying entry as securing market share will become increasingly difficult. 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.

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Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

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. The short answer we find from our research is: No. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images. While our research found that firm-level innovation is high, we also note that policy plays an important role.

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Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. A payment of cash to Eurozone households of 3-5% of GDP would probably suffice to generate a recovery.

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GDP Bond Banking Policies 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.

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GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

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. R&D subsidies, EU norms and standards, etc.).

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Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. “Small ball” can be effective in the short term. 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. Related Video.

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Innovation Market Segmentation GDP Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

This helps to explain why Greece has one of the lowest license and patent revenues from abroad as a percentage of its GDP, as well as one of the lowest contributions from high-tech product exports to its trade balance. This suggests that in addition to short-term policy changes, Greece needs a longer-term cultural shift.

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Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. Some of these practices can be carried out in the short term and deliver quick wins — for example, making sure that international initiatives are presented and reviewed at all major internal meetings.

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Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5 Health systems in developing countries range from providing basic care to everyone to almost nothing to anyone, other than what they can buy out-of-pocket in the least efficient way. In developing countries, the challenges are greater and the manpower more limited to meet them.

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Health Care Innovation GDP Cost 14

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.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 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.

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Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

I spent a few invigorating hours with Chris, who is a judge for our Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , in Boston last week to unpack a short course of some of the most important lessons from the book. 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.

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

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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Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 13

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 improve the school’s long-term financial performance and let teachers work out where to spend the extra resources. Architects redesign and transform, focusing on long-term impact. Five Types of Leader.

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Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

And is that, perhaps, the prime mover of what both Tyler Cowen and I have termed a Great Stagnation? Let's call it Enronia, for short. The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid. Grow up!!" So here's why I ask. Innovation atrophy. Deep debts.

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Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

More than 15 percent of the country's investment goes into real estate, and around 12 percent of GDP comes from property-related industries. Increased urbanization, construction, and vertical living, driving tremendous new demand for sources of safe and renewable energy.

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Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies. In short, microfinance is necessary but not sufficient to truly move the needle and get women more directly involved in national economies. Because credit isn't the only issue holding women back.

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Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

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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Information Technology Uncertainty Short-term GDP 8

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. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. Rich countries could simply reject the agenda, or they could co-opt a few key developing countries into the existing system.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

All of us — researchers, policymakers, governments, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit development groups, microfinance institutions, corporations, and philanthropists — have a role to play in bringing them into the widening zone of prosperity. BRAC’s short answer to these questions is yes, all of the above.

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Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece did have some good arguments going for it: It had achieved the biggest fiscal adjustment any developed country had mustered so far , stabilized its economy, and restructured its private debt. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. The initial reactions, in particular in the press, were positive.

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Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

No, I’m not, and the superficial impressions of short-term visitors to China should of course be taken with many grains of salt. With only six years to go and Asia still quite a few trillions of GDP dollars behind , that seems like a stretch.

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Globalization GDP Long-term Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 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. So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. And capital continues to expand.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Foshan is China's seventh-largest city in terms of GDP. In the United States, locus of the revolution's second stage, it took more than 50 years to double GDP. But a century later, when China and India industrialized, they doubled GDP in 12 and 16 years, respectively.

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GDP McKinsey Real Estate Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In President Obama''s second term, the United States has an ambitious and challenging Atlantic and Pacific trade agenda which could significantly alter the architecture of the global economy. But the President has yet to designate someone to fill the crucial Cabinet level position of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).

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GDP Short-term Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

To the long, dismal list of fatally broken institutions — GDP, governments, schools, corporations — we can add the mysterious Libor , and its conveniently comfortable calculation. It is, in short, about you and I, and the places we seek for ourselves in the world. These are the terms of the debate we're not having.

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

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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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Women on Business

MARCH 4, 2011

To many Congressional leaders, especially Republicans, the budget falls short of taking the necessary and serious deficit reduction measures. This is equal to over 9% of GDP, an alarmingly high statistic, and at that time, the highest deficit to GDP since World War II. trillion and 11% of GDP!!!), About the author.

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GDP Budgeting Proposal Short-term 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

And at that time, the United States had a public debt/GDP ratio of around 65% — a number that has since passed 100%. According to The Economist , the world's governments currently hold debts of approximately $45 trillion (relative to a world GDP of $65 trillion ). Nearly every major democracy is now struggling with public debt.

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GDP Maturity Gordon Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s true of GDP. Every day for most of the period from let’s say late 1980s basically through the end of my term, I would get almost every week people predicting that the world was coming to an end. If everyone were wholly rational in their long-term self-interest, there would be no political biases.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The economic gains for developing countries have been extraordinary. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% The first major adaptation is the adoption of corporate goals that go beyond short-term gain for shareholders and attend to the longer-term interests of all stakeholders.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

In short, I see an outcomes gap: a yawning chasm the size of the Grand Canyon between what our economy produces and what you might call a meaningfully well-lived life, what the ancient Greeks called eudaimonia. Better, not just more. But measures of "happiness" don't cut it either, because eudaimonia is more complicated than that.

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GDP Hamel Industry Construction 20

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

There is clearly something to this; while declines in manufacturing employment have hit the Scottish economy hard, manufacturing has also been in decline as a share of GDP across the advanced economies over the past 25 years. But neither is this the full story. These conditions apply in very few other prospective countries.

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Consensus Globalization Politics Policies 9