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 McKinsey and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have estimated that in 50 metropolitan areas worldwide, a rapid transition to advanced mobility systems could yield $600 billion in societal benefits through 2030.

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Once the deal has been done, let's say that the ESM now owns stock in a bunch of banks with no upside assets to speak of in an economy (Spain) with 25 percent unemployment and collapsing GDP growth. The Irish government, with a GDP in 2011 of close to 160 billion euros, has committed at least 64 billion euros to its banks.

GDP 13

GDP Banking Bond Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

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. This content represents thoughts of the author and does not necessarily represent the position of Bank of America or U.S.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Implications for city leaders: Leaders should loosen restrictions so that private finance can invest in improvements to physical infrastructure, to better use what already exists. Global urban innovators will do well to consider the different situations and approaches across the four segments and to match goals and financing appropriately.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Oil was discovered in the Congo worth about 28 times its GDP. The Intuits positioned themselves to benefit from arctic resource exploitation. FINANCING THAT VACATION HOME IN VANUATU. Brazil became a net importer of people. EU member Cypress turned to Moscow for its bailout funds. Nothing could be easier.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing GDP Bottom-up Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Where there is economic growth, there is opportunity, and the companies that can predict where growth will take place are better positioned to take advantage of it. 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. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

It lumps fundraising in with finance, human resources, leadership training, technology, and other administrative functions. Those correlations are all positive. at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged. But fundraising alone has the capacity to multiply money. How could it?

GDP 13

GDP Human Resources Finance Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance. 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

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The field attracts the most students, enjoys the attention of policy-makers and journalists, and gains notice, both positive and negative, from other scientists.". Meaning that you can never get truly scientific answers out of GDP or unemployment numbers. I tend to think it doesn't apply for macroeconomics in general.

Tversky 12

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

That Greece with a population of a mere 11 million and a GDP of $300 billion (only 2% of the Eurozone economies) can create systemic risk for the world speaks volumes about the downside of global interdependence. On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. position begin to change.

Crisis 11

Crisis Banking Politics GDP 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. The initial reactions, in particular in the press, were positive.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 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

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The genius in Singapore’s health-care system is that each individual’s stake in health-care financing is clearly visible. Today Singapore spends only 4% of GDP on health care, versus 18% in the U.S., As the primary payers, employers are well positioned to demand price transparency. Push for transparency. Encourage savings.

Health Care 8

Health Care Company Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. For several decades after World War II, economists used statistical techniques to build increasingly complex models to forecast key macroeconomic variables, notably, GDP growth, inflation and unemployment.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Here's what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Tags: Economy Finance Global business.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Decentralization 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

We are just waiting for GDP data to confirm the inevitable. The new jobs created weren't steady, full-time, middle class positions. Even the businesses that are optimistic and thus inclined to secure financing are finding loans hard to come by. Instead they were part time, project based, transient, and low wage.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Price Uncertainty 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, 710,000 fewer Americans work for multinationals than a decade ago, and their position in the U.S. GDP while undertaking 40.9% Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management. Only their R&D share rose during the last decade.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. From less than 10% of world exports, they account for nearly 20%.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Focusing on data such as population growth, inflation, and GDP growth is a way to anticipate market developments. Otherwise, companies risk facing challenges related to pricing, value, and positioning against competitors. However, remaining U.S. Accessing foreign exchange.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

GDP over the past decade might well have grown by an additional $1 trillion if the whole economy had performed at the level our long-term stalwarts delivered — and generated more than five million additional jobs 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

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. policy in Asia has become a “pivot away from China” and this position presents several key risks. No doubt, there has been much for the U.S. to focus on elsewhere in the world recently, from Russia to Iran.

Banking 8

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

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

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? They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. Many explanations have been offered.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

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. It’s true of GDP. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

Long-term 11

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

And at that time, the United States had a public debt/GDP ratio of around 65% — a number that has since passed 100%. According to The Economist , the world's governments currently hold debts of approximately $45 trillion (relative to a world GDP of $65 trillion ). Nearly every major democracy is now struggling with public debt.

GDP 12

GDP Maturity Gordon Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. The SOEs produce 33% of China’s GDP and account for 20% of its jobs; the central government controls one-third of the SOEs. They enjoy lower taxes and selective anti-trust enforcement to shield them from private competitors.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

The forces making the dollar's position ever more tenuous can't all be blamed on the Tea Party and the Republican Study Committee. This isn't just a spending problem; the tax cuts of the early 2000s also brought revenue down (as a percentage of GDP) to what appears to be an unsustainably low level. is no Greece. Here you go.)

Globalization 13

Globalization Crisis GDP Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

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 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

My students today are more likely to focus on a business’s impact on the environment or society at large, and to insist that companies have a positive social mission. BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. Big firms face different incentives, for a few reasons.

CEO 11

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Politicians on both sides of the aisle are finally starting to recognize that the current system places American parents in an impossible position. Today, more than 43 million Americans provide unpaid caregiving for elderly parents, ill spouses, new children, and other loved ones — often to the detriment of their household finances.

Proposal 13

Proposal Policies GDP Participative 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America). With Venezuela in free collapse, Cuba is in a position to accept help from a new economic benefactor. Does Cuba get a new economic benefactor?

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Long-term GDP 8