Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 Such zones, as well as other, more valuable uses of urban land, could be carved out of parking spaces, which will be significantly less in demand as vehicles are used more efficiently.

Transportation 9

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

It will link members of the African diaspora to opportunities in their native continent and position them to contribute to economic progress in the U.S. Corruption continues to undermine the efficiency of international-assisted projects in Africa, especially when they are executed by governments. AIDA is coming at the right time.

AIDA 11

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. In high-opportunity and resilient markets, companies should find ways to improve the efficiency of their local operations.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

And yet, this aggregate number adds up positive and negative weather impacts, and masks the true extent to which abnormal weather harms individual businesses operating in utilities, retail, food processing, transportation, and construction, among other industries. These disruptions add up. alone, or 3.5% or any combination).

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

trillion, or 2%, to global GDP and increase employment by 72 million full-time-equivalent positions by 2025. Independent workers allow them to quickly and efficiently scale staffing up and down to meet shifts in demand and changing business circumstances in an increasingly volatile and always-changing global economy.

Company 8

Company Automotive MBO Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

GDP and 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. All of this is surprising since the health care sustainability agenda has mostly focused on supply chain issues, reducing exposure of patients and workers to toxic chemicals, green building, and general eco-efficiency. We need all sectors to man the barricades and take positions.

Health Care 10

Health Care Operations Supply Chain GDP 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Superstar companies make lots of profit per employee, so as they become a bigger and bigger part of the economy, the overall share of GDP going to labor goes down. And although superstar firms may have become dominant through competitive means, they may cement their position using methods that are less benign.

GDP 8

GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The region will soon represent 10% of the global population and 9% of global GDP, with 640 million customers. Positioned at the forefront of digital and mobile adoption, Latin America provides an interesting look into how new marketing trends are taking hold on a global scale.

Marketing 8

Marketing Trends Software Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9 As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation. This equivalence is too cynical by half.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues). Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Characteristics: Most physical and institutional structures are already in place in these megacities, but with fast-growing populations and severe congestion, there is an opportunity to create value by improving efficiency and livability, and there is a market of customers with cash to pay for these benefits.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Soldiers like efficiency and order. Typically, they start by acquiring or setting up a primary school so they can teach students from a younger age, to give them more time to have an impact and embed positive behaviors earlier on. (In Soldiers trim and tighten, focusing on the bottom line. ” Finding More Architects.

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

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. trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Although the United States maintains world leadership in many advanced industries, that leadership position is eroding. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

But the President has yet to designate someone to fill the crucial Cabinet level position of U.S. The Trans-Pacific talks have involved 11 developed and developing Pacific Rim nations with a combined GDP of $40 trillion,and which recently got a jolt of energy and complexity when Japan (GDP=$6 trillion) joined the negotiations.

GDP 8

GDP Short-term Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

its ratio of exports to GDP, has been rising slowly for decades but remains significantly lower than in the European Union, China, and India. is in a strong position to take advantage of the changing nature of globalization. For example, less than 1% of the nearly 30 million registered U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Insurance Industry 8

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.) How do I strengthen my market position through acquisitions and innovation? Many explanations have been offered. 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

I’ve already mentioned the historic Paris agreement, but there are more positive steps worth noting. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2018

Those scores correlate positively with GDP per capita and with broader measures of prosperity, such as the Social Progress Index and the Legatum Index of Prosperity. Its score is even better than would be expected, given its GDP.

GDP 8

GDP Airlines Quality Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

energy policy for oil should aim at moderating demand through efficiency and increasing supply by focusing on drilling. Replacing the nation's fleet of 230 million cars and light duty trucks with more fuel-efficient vehicles over 15 years could save three million barrels of oil equivalent per day. China recently surpassed the U.S.

Policies 11

Policies Energy Transportation Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The UK is often identified as a global hub (a position that is going to be tested during the Brexit process), with strong global economic and political connections; New Zealand is geographically distant from much of the economic and political centers of the world, and is used to operating at the periphery of the global economy.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

While web retailing has made shopping hugely more convenient, none of it would be possible at the scale it has achieved without the retailers’ being able to tap into a highly flexible and efficient transportation system capable of delivering goods promptly to customers. We have that transportation system now, but this was not always the case.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8