The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

What’s more, the proportion of entrepreneurs with high levels of education has also been declining, with data showing a fall from 12.2% There is also evidence to suggest that the entrepreneurs that are in operation are less creative and innovative than their forebears. in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. If you’ve ever watched a large commercial logistics operation at work, you’ll have noticed something: everything is standardized. Improve Your Distribution Network Through Standardisation.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Without the ability to create knowledge through quality education, the sustainability of Africa’s new-found optimism remains questionable. In quality and quantity, tertiary education in Africa needs to be fixed. s 21 million ) in its four-year tertiary education system. Education drives technology.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Since two-thirds of world’s growth in GDP is likely come from poor countries, reverse innovation is an important phenomenon. General Electric engineered an $800 portable, battery-operated, easy-to-use electro-cardiogram (ECG) machine for rural India at a time when they were selling very powerful $10,000 ECG machines in the U.S.

Education 8

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

For instance, in 1880 most inventive activity was the result of inventors operating outside the boundaries of firms. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. history have tended to be highly educated, in contrast to the common portrait of the uneducated amateur.

Innovation 9

Innovation GDP Education Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. That would, in effect, boost GDP per worker from $120,000 to $141,000. GDP could grow by $3 trillion — and the actual figure would likely be higher. share was $32 trillion.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. 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.

Long-term 8

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Falling incomes will have grave consequences in places like the United States and Europe, where consumption accounts for 56% or 69% of GDP , respectively, requiring new social supports, such as a universal basic income. The result will be massive unemployment, falling wages, and wrenching economic dislocation. The Utopians.

GDP 8

GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

These results start to show up two years after the adoption of ENDAs and largely are driven by firms that previously did not implement non-discrimination policies, by firms that operate in human-capital-intensive industries, and by firms in states with large lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. Currently, the U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Human Capital Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. Foundational to this environment are access to healthcare, education, land rights and affordable childcare.

Globalization 10

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The research found that each extra year of secondary education increases a woman's potential earnings by 25% on average. In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country.

Franchising 12

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

My company understands that we do not operate in a bubble. In some parts of the world government mismanagement of community development (deliberate or otherwise) has led to civil strife, sometimes resulting in armed conflict, creating a security scenario where business simply cannot continue to operate.

Development 11

Development Porter Banking Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. This frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics. Khan Academy has upended the education sector by offering free tutorials on multiple subjects as short videos via YouTube.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

the UK, Hong Kong, and Japan — all capitalist countries, sure, but with dramatically different forms of capitalism and roles for government (government spending is well more than 50% of GDP in Finland and less than 20% in Hong Kong ). So successful economies do operate within certain bounds. Australia, and Austria.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Policies Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion. Beyond the obvious labor cost savings, the Philippines is an attractive destination for tech jobs, particularly for American companies, because of its young, educated workforce and its English-speaking population (the fifth largest on the planet).

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

“The main thing is to be independent and give your own orders and not have to take them from anybody else,” a machine operator told Lamont. It’s comfort food for high-school-educated guys who could have been my father-in-law if they’d been born 30 years earlier. That’s another part of Trump’s appeal.

Class 15

Class Open-book Policies Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. GDP while undertaking 40.9% shares of the global operations of U.S.-based In 2009, they accounted for 24.4%

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

If you want to maximize the social effects of your donation, why would you buy, for example, $100,000 worth of great educational programming for inner city kids when the same $100,000 directed toward fundraising could generate enough money to buy $1 million worth of it? at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged.

GDP 12

GDP Human Resources Finance Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. ” Education. In Britain, education levels were apparently the strongest predictor of voting patterns in the Brexit referendum — even though age and income levels tended to get more play in the press.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

I used different approaches to control for factors that might affect my results (such as the size of the workforce and education level) and to determine the direction of causality. This deserves a brief side note: Despite increases in GDP per capita, real wages for many workers have been stagnating in recent decades.

Participative 8

Participative Trends GDP Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Solutions should trend toward entertainment, education, and social networking, and they can be location specific. OpenTable (a restaurant reservations service), Motivate (the operator of CitiBike, Bay Area Bikeshare, and others), and Luxe (a web-based valet parking service) are examples. Segment 2: Emerging Economy, Legacy City.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

operations. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. Miami’s median income was 10 times that of most of the cities where Unamano operated. How can we hit 25 developing countries by 2020 if we get distracted by operations in the U.S.? It didn’t have U.S. Miami certainly qualified.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Among countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), women on average spend about 2.4 One study found that if care work were assigned a monetary value, it would account for 10 to 39 percent of GDP. more hours than men on unpaid work, including caring for family members, each day.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that without major change, it will account for more than 20% of GDP by 2021, up from 5.2% A key part of the cost solution is to educate all caregivers, including doctors, about what items cost. Health Operations' American health care is on an unsustainable path.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2013

So here is a mostly unscientific Independence Day list — compiled with lots of help from the databases of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , a.k.a. On the OECD''s list , only Mexico and South Korea devote a smaller percentage of GDP to family benefits. Higher education costs students more in the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Incentives Policies Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

With fewer breakthrough products to sell overseas, exports as a share of GDP have stagnated at 11%, while imports have soared, forcing the U.S. Start with the wages of college-educated workers, people who tend to work in creative industries. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup. real decline in wages.".

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 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. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example. Last year, the company spent $56 billion on share repurchases. billion by more than 7%.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. Finally, to educate the next generation of analysts, the CFA exam will now include a focus on ESG issues. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

At the same time, the energy industry must do a much better job informing the public and educating political leaders about the pragmatic realities we face and the difficult choices we must make. The role of China, which now accounts for 10 percent of the world GDP, is critical. China recently surpassed the U.S.

Policies 10

Policies Energy Transportation Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8