Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

billion by 2050, and to feed that number of people, global food production will need to grow by 70%. For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger. hectares of farmland. But this is about to change.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Returns management should be a major focus.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. billion raised by the wealth management platform Lufax. billion raised by Baidu spinoff Du Xiaoman Financial and the $1.3

Marketing 40

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Mentor 50

Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage.

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% Is it feasible for the global economy to achieve such a large acceleration in productivity growth from an already rapid rate? a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% over the next 50 years. We disagree.

Globalization 8

Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Globalization is not what it was even a decade ago. The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world. But globalization hasn’t gone into reverse. The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. Of the 400 top global universities, only three are in Africa. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). GDP growth a year across the period. GDP growth a year across the period.

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). It boasts 85 companies in the Global Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations. level (see “GDP Per Capita” chart below). percentage points of the 10.5

GDP 12

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

In our research we took a detailed look at 46 countries, representing about 80% of the global workforce. We examined their automation potential today — what’s possible by adapting demonstrated technologies — as well as the potential similarities and differences in how automation could take hold in the future.

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

As a percentage of GDP, it’s now back to mid-1990s levels: There’s a version of the chart above in the much - discussed paper that MIT economist David Autor presented last week at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. tumbled, and stayed down. Well, sort of.

GDP 14

GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. 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. CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Speaking at the recent Global Philanthropy Forum , Toyin Saraki — founder and president of the WellBeing Foundation Africa — articulated her evolving approach to giving. growth in GDP. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% shares of the global operations of U.S.-based Despite decades of globalization, these companies remain predominantly U.S. Overall, the share of domestic employment in the total global employment of U.S. Leaders of global companies are today voicing concern about a deep set of U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. Consider the global trends cited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in a recent interview with HBR. So what are we to do?

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. The data that goes into creating the Global Innovation Index is based on some 84 variables, covering over 140 countries. Competition Global business' So is Europe really sick?

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. While technology and globalization have spurred competition, efficiency, and dynamism, the gains have not been shared by all.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. We have ample historical evidence that when petroleum expenditures reach 5% of GDP, recession typically follows.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. The ascendancy of emerging-market firms is evident in rankings such as the Fortune Global 500; more than 160 of these firms have joined the list since 2000.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. From an economic perspective, its goal is much the same as India's updated GDP 2.0: But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs. But the challenge is bigger than that.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 Economic Outlook for 2014 and Beyond, January 13, 2014, About.com), and our own research , “CEO Briefing 2014 –The Global Agenda: Competing in a Digital World,” found widespread optimism in the C-Suite about companies’ growth prospects. to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S. Indeed, U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Is the global economy going Enron? You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. So here's a question. Deep debts.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

In 2012, even in the midst of an anemic global economy and budget tightening at firms, the amount spent on these events worldwide was an estimated $565 billion. GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” There’s not just one rationale for events.

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Thanks to an aggressive privatization and conversion program, Bonifacio Global City — as the base is known today — is a modern, bustling financial district lined with blocks of skyscrapers, shopping malls, and luxury condos. That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2015

“Every wind farm has a unique profile, like DNA or a fingerprint,” says Keith Longtin, general manager for wind products at GE Renewable Energy. GE says that the technology could boost a wind farm’s energy production by as much as 20% and create $100 million in extra value over the lifetime of a 100-megawatt farm.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Power Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

The internet and globalization have combined to render almost every company vulnerable to greater competition than ever. Corporate profits have risen relative to overall GDP. We are living in a time of amazing technologies, but that’s arguably been true of every period since the industrial revolution. Back then U.S.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. Managing Emotion Effectively Keeps Business On Track. I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.".

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

more competition to reduce consumer prices, sharing international best practices, technology transfer, public-private partnerships) needed to boost the economy’s health. Looking further into the future, Iran is a potential global trade hub. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. Why Russia is still attractive. This worked, because both crises were short-lived (lasting approximately 1-1.5

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

After 20 years of global negotiations that got us approximately nowhere near where the science tells us we need to be, this time looks different. These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. For example, the U.S.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers. Leaders who had access to global and more visible experiences are more likely to advance.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. ” “Haven’t I told you?”

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8