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.) To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. Why can the U.S. The difference isn't their debt and deficits. In 2011, U.S. Imports surged.

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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 15

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 15

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. or China should get the gold medal. In the U.S.,

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Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

This helps to explain why Greece has one of the lowest license and patent revenues from abroad as a percentage of its GDP, as well as one of the lowest contributions from high-tech product exports to its trade balance. To do this we must learn from the successes of other countries. But Greece cannot stop there.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

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.".

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

found those that were successful had twice the number of women on the founding team. 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.

Globalization 11

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

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. A new America was born and, as this plot shows , the country GDP began to grow in multiples. By the time George Washington signed the first U.S.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

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

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

For many reasons, China is unlikely to repeat Japan's success. By comparison, China's FDI stock equals 8% of its GDP; more than 70% of that FDI consists of wholly foreign-owned enterprises (as opposed to joint ventures); and foreign firms produce half of China's exports and more than 90% of China's high-tech exports.

Comparison 13

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 13

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. The industry was born in its current form, however, when the first venture capital firms were founded in the middle of the twentieth century. The best VCs have successfully identified major industry disruptions before they occur.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

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. If we see a country where reward outweighs the risk, we want to invest,” CEO Jeff Immelt says in Success in Africa. GE did more than take advantage of growth as it came. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

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. And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

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

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 29, 2014

Two well-known companies have also made auctions famous, and economists have played central roles in the success of each. 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 10

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. A comprehensive compliance strategy is the essential bedrock for building and implementing a successful Iran plan. Focusing on data such as population growth, inflation, and GDP growth is a way to anticipate market developments. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 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 11, 2011

We are just waiting for GDP data to confirm the inevitable. Congress largely considers this program a success: they avoided a complete financial collapse and recouped a good portion of the money invested. Even the businesses that are optimistic and thus inclined to secure financing are finding loans hard to come by.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Price Uncertainty 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

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. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Innovation in Cities.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

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. And capital continues to expand.

ROE 11

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 11

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

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. Innovation and change.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 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.) ” Senor and Singer also cite immigration policy and a culture that tolerates risk-taking and failure as contributing to Israel’s startup success. Many explanations have been offered.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In 2015 real GDP per capita was $56,000 in the United States. The real GDP per capita in that same year was only $47,000 in Germany, $41,000 in France and the United Kingdom, and just $36,000 in Italy, adjusting for purchasing power. Each year, the United States produces more per person than most other advanced economies.

Decentralization 13

Decentralization GDP Finance Incentives 13

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 9

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% Hence the continued success of Netflix, Skype, Zappos, and the like as the tide has turned against globalization.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

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.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Further, the more drastic the austerity (measured by calculating spending cuts and tax increases as a percentage of GDP), the greater the economic downturn. Those that fall into an economic slowdown or recession can''t "print money" to finance their safety nets for people who are unemployed or who face extreme poverty.

Policies 12

Policies Politics System Morale 12

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

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. But this healthy forecast should not encourage complacency about risk.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. And to demonstrate that you can be a successful business not just in spite of but because of these commitments. The top 500 firms’ revenues equate to nearly 37% of world GDP.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It is the fifth largest in terms of GDP , and is one of the most globally connected of all major economies. It has historically been the preeminent hub for global finance because of a combination of history, geography, and its strengths in digital technologies.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 9

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.

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Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8