Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

I couldn''t help but think back to that as controversy erupted this week over Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff''s oft-cited three-year-old finding that economic growth plummets when a country''s debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 90%. growth in countries with debt/GDP of more than 90%, they came up with 2.2%

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

To really make a difference, private entrepreneurs and civic entrepreneurs need to match projects to specific circumstances. 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.

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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. Cross-border data flows have grown by a factor of 45 over the past decade, and they’re projected to post another ninefold increase by 2020. The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

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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. Later, as a project officer at the Rockefeller Foundation, he channeled resources to risk mitigation schemes that allowed banks to better serve small farmers.

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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!!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. Italy-based World’s Advanced Saving Project recently upped the ante by unveiling the world’s largest 3D mud printer, which combines advanced technology with ancient construction techniques and abundantly available cheap materials (mud and clay) to build ultra-low-cost houses that are durable and sustainable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

In fact, private capital investment, an even larger ticket item than R&D, has also been increasing and is at historically high levels of GDP. Others, such as the discovery of DNA, the human genome project and clean energy, benefit society more broadly. National competitiveness Finance & Accounting Research & development'

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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.

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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. However, remaining U.S. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. Finding the right local partners.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

We are just waiting for GDP data to confirm the inevitable. Instead they were part time, project based, transient, and low wage. Even the businesses that are optimistic and thus inclined to secure financing are finding loans hard to come by. For a few months in a row, we were thrilled to see 160,000 new jobs created per month.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Rather than a funding gap, there is a bankable projects gap : the projects themselves are not attractive to investors. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole.

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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. So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. They create flux time for employees to devote to new projects. (3M,

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers. ” What else needs to change?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. The battles may be over, but the war is just beginning. billion in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% Thus, technological innovation in these sectors tends to be financed by the government and carried out within government or quasi-government laboratories. in 2000 to 2.0% in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% ” But what’s the effect?

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

With Greece on the verge of collapse and the EU project in serious trouble — trouble that threatens not only Europeans but the rest of the world — it's time for seriously new thinking from our friends in Europe. Spain ran a surplus in 2007, and its total debt to GDP ratio was lower than Germany's. Or so the thinking goes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

There's a growing middle class, expanded GDP, and general optimism in the region. Africa has become a place where financial institutions are financing real estate projects. Though the traditional media continue to report wars, famine, and HIV, most business media showcase Africa as a continent with opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

In a phrase, it''s time to throw out the EU project itself. Further, the more drastic the austerity (measured by calculating spending cuts and tax increases as a percentage of GDP), the greater the economic downturn. The whole thing, root and branch. Here are just a few reasons why. The EU has failed the most important test.

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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. of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S. How has Europe dealt with the situation? position.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect. Mexico and Brazil alone account for over 60% of Latin America’s GDP and most regional revenue for multinationals. growth in real GDP. What might seem to be a local dispute over fisheries and oil fields has much broader implications.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Collectively, the D5 nations serve two important purposes for our project: They give us a way to construct a global benchmark that can be used to assess D5 nations and other countries, and they each offer a case study and model for what smart can look like.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Infrastructure spending as a percentage of GDP in the U.S. What kinds of projects should be emphasized? In a written email exchange, he shared his thoughts on the future of U.S.

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