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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. of respondents citing survival as a key challenge.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Therefore, bad leadership — or, if you prefer, incompetent management — is a major source of entrepreneurship. their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that's 40% of China's entire GDP). Does this imply that we should hope for more incompetent leadership in the future?

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

On the other end of the growth spectrum, analysis of a dataset from 350 micro finance institutions across 70 countries indicated lending to more women was associated with lower write-offs and lower portfolio-at-risk. Programs like the Center for Women''s Entrepreneurial Leadership are innovating in the academic space.

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Would You Invest in This Kid?

Harvard Business Review

His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. was recording its GDP in hundreds of millions of dollars — not billions. By the late 19th century, the U.S.

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Multiplication Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

It lumps fundraising in with finance, human resources, leadership training, technology, and other administrative functions. at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged. The founding donor can create a great model, but who's going to expand it and whence will those funds come? How could it?

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If GE did more than take advantage of growth as it came. It’s neither.

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Your Board Should Be Full of Activists

Harvard Business Review

Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.