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Markets: Understand the Present to Forecast the Future (Part 2)

Coaching Tip

Back in the 1990s, his interest started broadening and he started developing this field called socionomics. After noticing the real GDP per person just dropped to its lowest level in more than 75 years, a major newspaper recently asked a slate of economists, "What's wrong with the economy?" Steve : Thank you. .

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Morning Advantage: Robots!

Harvard Business Review

GDP growth isn’t actually all that good a predictor of income growth for ordinary working households." So even while GDP growth ticks anemically up in developed countries, workers don't feel better off. Social Media Tips from Tupperware (INSEAD Blog). When a Growing Economy Still Feels Bad (The Spectator).

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

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. But the scales have now tipped in favor of accelerating growth. And capital continues to expand.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S.

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How the Digital Wind Farm Will Make Wind Power 20% More Efficient

Harvard Business Review

GE believes that the Industrial Internet could add $10 to $15 trillion to global GDP in efficiency gains over the next two decades. The data comes from dozens of sensors inside each turbine monitoring everything from the yaw of the nacelle, to the torque of the generator, to the speed of the blade tips.

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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. As they see that developing mobile apps alone cannot feed Africa, many will turn to farming as a business. For decades, African governments have used many policy instruments to improve farm productivity.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Women''s entrepreneurship has hit a media tipping point. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. In the US and Developed Europe women are 18% less likely to perceive they have the capability to start a business. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72