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. For instance, in 1880 most inventive activity was the result of inventors operating outside the boundaries of firms.

Innovation 10

Innovation GDP Education Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

In a new Accenture survey (titled Reworking the Revolution , which will be published on January 23 rd ) of 1,200 C-level executives worldwide, 75% say that they are currently accelerating investments in AI and other intelligent technologies. The Technology Optimists. The Utopians. The Productivity Skeptics.

GDP 8

GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 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. 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.

Long-term 9

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

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

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 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

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 13

GDP Human Resources Finance Technology 13

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 14

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 14

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

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 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. Some, like the development of specific technology for a new product, largely benefit one firm. billion by more than 7%.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

operations. It should have been a prime area for entrepreneurial activity: It had a solid technology infrastructure and a substantial population of 25-to-44-year-olds—many of whom were engineering or computer-science graduates—as well as a large local consumer market. It didn’t have U.S. ” Guillermo had a point.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. The business press puts a tremendous focus on technology and innovation, but what it doesn't do is put it into context.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

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

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

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

As you fly into Doha and cast your eyes over the gleaming towers of West Bay or the striking new facilities emerging on a daily basis both in central Doha and Education City, it can appear incredulous to countenance Qatar as a nation afflicted by the resource curse. Unlocking human potential.

Resources 84

Resources Innovation GDP Education 84

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.) In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. Research has highlighted the early role of military R&D, which, much like in the U.S.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 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. Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. 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 11

Policies Energy Transportation Politics 11

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