The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. By contrast, employment at big firms rose from 51% to 57% of the overall workforce in the same timeframe.

Venture Capitalist 52

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

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. Earlier this year, I received an invitation on behalf of the Tata Center for Technology and Design and the Department of Mechanical Engineering to speak at MIT about my work on reverse innovation.

Education 8

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. This is because they have had time to gain an education but are not sufficiently embedded into the status quo to see no other way of working.

Marketing 40

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

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. The best way to do this is to use scanning technology. Automation technology has come on leaps and bound in recent years. Automate Everything.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

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. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level.

Innovation 12

Innovation GDP Education Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The catch is that adopting these technologies will disrupt the world of work. The jobs gained will require higher educational attainment and more advanced levels of communication and cognitive ability, as work requiring rote skills such as data processing or collection increasingly are taken over by machines. The Economy in 2018.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. So what are we to do?

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

in the most radical technologies. by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. In 2010, just under 11% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing, and manufacturing contributed 13% of GDP. But the fairy tale that the U.S. Germany is just as good as the U.S. In the U.S.,

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

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. We looked only at immigrants’ nationality, not other markers of diversity such as race, language, gender, education, or religion.

Long-term 10

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 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

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. Factor accumulation (capital and labour) thus accounts for about 60 to 70% of GDP growth.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. While technology and globalization have spurred competition, efficiency, and dynamism, the gains have not been shared by all.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

does better for Africa when it supports talented Africans and offers scholarships to educate them in its elite universities. has educated some of Africa's great legends. The education has helped, but the aid model has not worked well. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology.

AIDA 12

AIDA AIDAS GDP Education 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Partly in consequence, women get less education: 50% drop out after primary school because they are called back home to look after their parents' burgeoning families. Goldman Sachs has reported that the USA could improve GDP by 9% by reducing its gender gap. Zambia ranks 102nd out of 134 on the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report.

Market Penetration 15

Market Penetration Wireless GDP Education 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

By 2016, four out of ten jobs will require advanced education or training, and many hiring managers are already finding that the talent they need is hard to find. "If Goldman Sachs found the association between GDP and medals was strongest, by far, in cycling, followed by judo, rowing, and swimming. WHAT IT DON'T GET, I CAN'T USE.

GDP 12

GDP Sports Short-term Education 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

This investment in education makes sound economic sense. While the youth unemployment rate has remained high, post-recession, the more education you have the more likely you are to work. Economy Education Gender' Indeed, while the Quartz slug reads "opt out," these women are actually doubling down.

Education 9

Education GDP Report Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. 4% of US GDP). Some of those transfers can be avoided through the widespread use of technology that is already available.

GDP 14

GDP Technology Cost Education 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. Carvalho talked about increasing investment (investment’s share of GDP is lower in Brazil than any other major Latin American economy), which would surely help.

GDP 11

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

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

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We interviewed these 411 leaders, as well as those who work for them, analyzed their education, background, and experience and recorded their actions and impact using 64 investment variables and 24 performance measures over seven years. Academies have devolved decision-making powers enabling them to bypass local government.)

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. Khan Academy has upended the education sector by offering free tutorials on multiple subjects as short videos via YouTube. So Khan Academy launched KA Lite , an open-source software that delivers its educational content without internet connectivity.

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

JANUARY 12, 2016

But technology has started to change that formula. As we move from a brick-and-mortar economy to one driven by innovation, it will be crucial for cities to facilitate job and economic growth by fostering established businesses, as well as the entrepreneurs who today are driving 50 percent of GDP and creating 75 percent of new jobs.

Content 8

Content Human Capital IAS Transportation 8

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 14

GDP Human Resources Finance Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

For example, the gains that IT contributed to the GDP of the Netherlands in 2014 were wiped out by the even larger cost of cybercrime. That’s bigger than the GDP of 75 countries combined. Good technology exists and will help, if we use it. IT Internet Security & privacy Technology'

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

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 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. 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. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Solutions should trend toward entertainment, education, and social networking, and they can be location specific. There are opportunities to combine creative financing with thoughtful use of new sensor and big-data technologies to create projects that contribute to building sustainable cities. Segment 3: Emerging Economy, New City.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. But Forus placed its bets on the lower cost CEMOS technology which the mobile phone industry embraced.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM.

Creativity 16

Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7% capital investment, shipping 71.1% of all U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

growth in GDP. New philanthropists are using their capital in very specific ways to implement their plans; in a similar way they did in the world of technology or business. Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. The limitations of GDP have long been recognized. Academics have also joined the post-GDP party. This past Friday, the U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

Business will move the great masses of humanity forward with advancements in pharmaceuticals, materials, process, and technology — but it will almost always leave 10% behind. Americans give about $300 billion to nonprofit organizations annually, most of it to education and religious institutions.

Learning Curve 9

Learning Curve Advertising GDP Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

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. And it’s not just short-term investors that like buybacks and dividends.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

After all, India’s growth has slowed to a crawl, with GDP expanding by less than 5% in the last two years compared to 9% per annum in the five years before 2008. Besides, India’s federal system ensures that state governments deal with key issues such as power distribution, education, and land acquisition.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

There is also a technology outsourcing industry. Poland on the one side and Russia on the other are both in the low twenty-thousands in GDP per capita, and Ukraine is officially at $7,298. We all know about Ukraine as the breadbasket of Europe, and it is indeed an incredibly fertile country. Why is the economy such a mess?

Politics 8

Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8