Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. Chief among these are access to capital, access to markets, and access to networks and skills development. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

GDP 14

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

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% Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Salinas instituted market reforms lauded by Washington, including the North American Free Trade Agreement. Why can the U.S. In 2011, U.S.

GDP 9

GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

What do 70% of successful entrepreneurs have in common? their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that's 40% of China's entire GDP). This means most entrepreneurs are destined to fail, so there's a high cost underlying successful enterprise.

Leadership 16

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. found those that were successful had twice the number of women on the founding team. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter.

Globalization 12

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes.

Long-term 10

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

to 8% GDP growth rate already is a significant slowdown from the nearly 10% annual pace at which China''s economy had been growing until last year. China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark. to 8% growth rate.".

GDP 8

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. 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. patent on July 31, 1790, there was a market for ideas and investing.

GDP 11

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. public market capitalization over this period. percentage points of GDP growth per year). We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It happens every time there’s a big announcement about a national or regional innovation policy that will lead us into the future: We are presented with schemes to strengthen intellectual property rights, enlarge the pool of risk financing, and upgrade the universities while pushing them to collaborate more with industry.

Policies 8

Policies Innovation Finance Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. Since 1990, the market capitalization of multinational corporations has grown at more than three times the average rate of listed companies around the world, our research shows.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It has such a high share of the market that when there’s a problem with fake news it becomes, in large part, Facebook’s problem. BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. The top 500 firms’ revenues equate to nearly 37% of world GDP.

CEO 10

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

For many reasons, China is unlikely to repeat Japan's success. In short, Japan enjoyed asymmetric openness — access to foreign technology and export markets but protection from foreign competition. Simply because of its size, it commands attention in global negotiations on trade, finance, and the environment.

Comparison 14

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. Economists and finance. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

Strategy 11

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In a relatively short time, venture-backed companies have grown to account for over 20% of US GDP today. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. The best VCs have successfully identified major industry disruptions before they occur.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% The United States cannot rest on past success and take its multinationals for granted. Yes, but success is not guaranteed. Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management. of all U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

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.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Digital players wield outsize market power. Digital markets are uneven.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Congress had a moderately successful run with budget pre-commitment mechanisms in the 1980s and 1990s, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the successor known as " paygo." Surowiecki ultimately didn't think this approach made sense for crafting national fiscal policy.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 The score assigned to this component is an aggregate of scores earned by different clusters of inclusion-related indicators; the clusters that make up inclusivity are labor market inclusion, economic mobility, diversity and acceptance, and policies that promote inclusion.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 9

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. This, of course, doesn’t mean that we discourage entrepreneurs to seek financing.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54