Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. So what is holding these engineers back?

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry. Fact 3: Considerable personality gaps exist between the sexes in inquisitiveness, sensitivity and impulsiveness.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

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.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

By comparison, the United States has a higher proportion of work hours in management, architecture, and engineering jobs, which have a lower automation potential since they require application of specific expertise such as high-value engineering, which computers and robots currently are not able to do. billion to 2.2

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Small businesses constitute the majority of our GDP and have historically been the source of most new job creation. An economy that derives 70% of its GDP from consumer spending cannot sustain stable growth when average consumers don't have money to spend. From 2000 – 2009, overall GDP grew by 17.8%

GDP 12

GDP Planning Cost of Capital Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

Every technology follows a similar path of discovery, engineering, and transformation. The digital revolution, for all of its charms, has had a fairly limited economic impact, compared with earlier technologies such as electricity and the internal combustion engine.

Industry 13

Industry GDP Technology Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. 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. .” By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. I had an opportunity to catchup with Sramana and we talked about the program.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% The world is aging, and that matters for growth.

Globalization 8

Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

It’s less about remote control and more about machine intelligence and allowing things like wind turbines, locomotives and jet engines to talk and understand each other. The Industrial Internet could add $10 to $15 trillion to global GDP in efficiency gains over the next two decades.

Industry 8

Industry Software GDP Engineering 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. Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering. Engineering graduates are good at solving problems. Once given a problem, they tackle it rigorously.

Education 8

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

US annual GDP is just over $15 trillion. trillion) over ten years is just over seven percent of one year's GDP. But the actual cut for 2013 is a tenth of that figure, less than one percent of GDP, each year, over ten years, which is far less dramatic. The media tends to downplay that these cuts would be spread over ten years.

GDP 10

GDP Politics Budgeting Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

There are at least 500 start-ups with French founders in the San Francisco Bay area, and there are over 50,000 Germans in Silicon Valley, where salaries for software engineers are much higher than in Europe (or elsewhere). their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that's 40% of China's entire GDP).

Leadership 16

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. The truth is: Germany wins hands down. In the U.S.,

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

Instead, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis, China has expanded central planning ; 100,000 SOEs have been the principal engine of that expansion. The SOEs produce 33% of China’s GDP and account for 20% of its jobs; the central government controls one-third of the SOEs. The need for restrictions and transparency.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Robotics is akin to gunpowder, the steam engine, or the computer. 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. Singer in this piece. TRICKLE DOWN PETERS OUT.

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Budgeting Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. They cannot engineer a currency crash to cut imports, raise exports, and begin to bail out. Why can the U.S. The difference isn't their debt and deficits.

GDP 9

GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

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. 3M, for example, has long allowed engineers to devote 15% of their time to skunkworks projects, without supervisor approval.)

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

In recent years, however, the ability of our research ecosystem to sustain a leading global position has come into question, especially as new competitors emerge, such as China, which churns out huge numbers of new scientists and engineers and increases its research and development (R&D) expenditures at a 20% annual rate.

Outsourcing 11

Outsourcing Chief Technology Officer Engineering GDP 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

"If we want to see more Americans gainfully employed — not in jobs, but with living-wage careers," he writes, we need to invest more in the nonprofit sector and in government programs like our educational system to advance science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) outcomes. AFTER ROBOT-DRIVEN CARS, WHATS LEFT?

GDP 11

GDP Sports Short-term Education 11

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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Twenty years of experience in other emerging markets, so many all but dismissed as economic engines less than a generation ago, offer interesting parallels. This generation is benefiting from regional and global capital more comfortable with political risk than ever before.

Long-term 8

Long-term GDP Uncertainty Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2015

Although by today’s standards the huge, 60-foot machine was massively inefficient, it started a new industry that pushed generations of engineers to make it better. GE believes that the Industrial Internet could add $10 to $15 trillion to global GDP in efficiency gains over the next two decades.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Power Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

This was a brilliant design worthy of American engineering genius in the twenty-first century. That looks like a lot of money, but at less than 1/3 of 1% of a single year's GDP, it seemed a bargain price to change America's automotive fuel source so profoundly. One difficulty was how to produce the hydrogen to power the cars.

Price 15

Price Automotive GDP Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. The value created by Facebook and a few other tech IPOs exceeds the GDP of most African regions. Through my experience, I’ve seen how a university could improve its community.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Historically, R&D has been viewed as the engine of national economic growth as well. GDP growth over the past 30 years. .” According to that report, the top 1,000 R&D spenders invested $680 billion in R&D that year, up 5% from the prior year. One possible explanation is that R&D has gotten harder.

Gordon 10

Gordon Company Innovation Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

s Human Development Index and the standard economic measure of per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress. Science and engineering have become devalued amongst American students and policy-makers. The contrast between the U.N.'s

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

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

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. In 2012, Dinesh Seemakurty, a bio-medical engineering student at University of Southern California was visiting India. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. In 2016, the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Emerging economies are expected to account for as much as two-thirds of future growth in world GDP. Now that most rich countries are in a slow-growth recovery, following a truly awful recession, the growth gap looks more like a growth chasm. Emerging market competitors provide the strongest impetus for reverse innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Telecommunications Globalization GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

When President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan suggested citizenship for some Syrians, especially doctors and engineers, there was a backlash. That’s one reason why Turkey’s GDP grew by 2.9% Everyday rhetoric has shifted from “Syrians are our guests” to vitriol and suspicion.

Long-term 9

Long-term Safe Harbor Planning Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

To achieve this target, however, China will need to find new engines of growth, such as consumption, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are emphasized in the plan.

Planning 8

Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Overall, Graetz and Michaels conclude that the use of robots within manufacturing raised the annual growth of labor productivity and GDP by 0.36 That might not seem like a lot but it represents 10% of total GDP growth in the countries studied and 16% of labor productivity growth over that time period.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion. The median age is 24, and local universities produce over 130,000 graduates in information technology and engineering each year. The Philippines has a huge business process outsourcing industry.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Science and engineering professionals work closely with experienced technicians to produce next-generation batteries, not forged metal. ” The defining characteristics of companies in this super-sector are a commitment to innovation and a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in the workforce.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." Moving on to the pursuit of profit, which is baked in at every level of our economic and personal lives. "On

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11