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

OCTOBER 29, 2012

First, don't just focus on the budget and the schedule; make sure you're also managing strategy and key stakeholders. Third, make sure the teams working on the project have incentives that are aligned with the project's goals. And finally, double-down on stringent project management. Easier said than done.

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Budgeting Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

That’s roughly, and remarkably, half of Germany’s GDP, amounting to about 9% of world exports that year. So how did Germany, with the fourth-largest GDP in the world (after the United States, China, and Japan), transform itself from sick man to economic superstar? With just 2.6 The country’s exports reached nearly $1.3

Marketing 13

Marketing Decentralization Policies GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. Just to keep pace with anticipated global GDP growth, the world needs to spend $57 trillion , or on average $3.2 The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates that investment equivalent to 7.9%

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. For example, aerial images from satellites or drones, weather forecasts, and soil sensors are making it possible to manage crop growth in real time. But most farmers are still only marginally improving yields.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals.

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Ask these same managers after a launch whether they met their performance objectives, and too many will answer “not quite” or “not at all.” As the exhibit shows, managers in winning firms were significantly more likely to agree or strongly agree with the statements characterizing each ‘tude.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In this spirit let me introduce you to just such a report: Networks for Prosperity: Achieving Development Goals through Knowledge Sharing ( here is a pdf ), just published by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Leuvan Centre for Global Governance Studies.

NGO 13

NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 13

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. By bringing them into their ecosystems, the larger competitive firms help instill management and operational best practices, and can accelerate and encourage technology adoption.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

.” The 2015 letter : We see “acute pressure…for companies to meet short-term financial goals at the expense of building long-term value.” Throughout these letters, and other pronouncements, BlackRock has made clear that managing issues like climate change and diversity creates business value.

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Letter Long-term Short-term Diversity 9

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. manufacturers are taking notice.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

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. It also demands senior management and board involvement. They are playing development to win. General Electric is a good example.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The movement’s organizers claim a convergence des luttes (convergence of goals) among those who oppose the reform to open up the railway sector to competition, or the one to allow public universities to screen applicants more tightly, and those who want a wage increase or oppose the labor and tax reforms by Macron. GDP grew by 1.9%

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable?

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Brilliant brand management is multi-media and cause-related. GDP or around $50 billion. Real monarchs, in the Western world and increasingly elsewhere, must align their goals with those of the public, get the approval of elected governments, and exhibit the common touch. Not exactly.

CEO 16

CEO Apparel GDP Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

The available categories cover many kinds of jobs, including being a business owner, office worker, or manager, and working in farming, construction, mining, or transport. GDP is masking deeper issues. Social status, social relations, daily structure, and goals all exert a strong influence on people’s happiness.

Report 14

Report Transportation Stress Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. Like an immigrant who comes to a new country, managers need to see that opportunities are everywhere, every day, and that they need to make the most of those that cross their paths. All managers need to develop this ability to see around the corners up ahead.

Career 15

Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

Our goal was to rejuvenate a dying 40-year-old brand so it would appeal to a new generation of Indian children, many being raised on a diet of American cartoon shows and films. With the backing of an investor, I acquired Amar Chitra Katha, the iconic Indian publisher of children's books and comics.

Marketing 13

Marketing Film GDP Media 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Here, too, the directional impact has been analyzed credibly, with estimates ranging from 3%–9% of GDP loss. Design contingency plans and reflect any insights in your strategies for growth, geographical footprint, global supply chain, and risk management. Keep talking about progress against goals. For example, a U.S.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

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.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

No sooner had Beijing's flame died than the global financial crisis took British debt levels above 60% of GDP, excluding public intervention in failing banks. The more test events completed, the better prepared organizers will be to manage spectators' security come Games-time. Challenge your team to align and share goals.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

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. If this goal is not achieved, those who will ultimately suffer most from a less competitive United States will be its workers and their families. of all U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

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. Their goal is to lower product prices to gain market share away from competitors who import into the country. Why Russia is still attractive.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. Deforestation causes up to 10% of global GHG emissions (trees store carbon, which reduces GHG emissions, and release carbon when they are cut or burned), and reducing deforestation is one of the cheaper and easier ways to tackle global climate change goals.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

He’d been the one to suggest that Unamano aim to quadruple the revenues of the small businesses it targeted, an audacious goal given the long odds facing any emerging-market start-up. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. From that perch, he saw only potential in Miami. An Acute Need.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% of the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. If Roca meets certain goals related to preventing released prisoners from ending up back in jail, the state will repay the investors their principal, with a sliding scale of profit tied to degree of success.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

What is wrong with prospering along with a community empowered by greater skills in budgeting, saving, and money management? When fully operational, this mine promises to account for somewhere between a quarter and a third of the GDP of Mongolia. Towns need to be built, and the influx of workers needs to be managed.

Development 13

Development Porter Banking Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% The first major adaptation is the adoption of corporate goals that go beyond short-term gain for shareholders and attend to the longer-term interests of all stakeholders.

Politics 9

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Now consider a different vision: maybe crafting a fine meal, to be accompanied by local, award-winning microbrewed beer your friends have brought over, and then walking back to the studio where you're designing a building whose goal is nothing less than rivaling the Sagrada Familia.

GDP 21

GDP Hamel Industry Construction 21

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

You can't cover every possible contingency, but having a set of options lined up in case things don't work out as expected is a basic rule of good risk management, entrepreneurship , negotiation, career planning, and all number of other endeavors. They were the doing of a bunch of technocrats, led by French economist and diplomat Jean Monnet.

Contingency Plans 14

Contingency Plans Crisis Politics GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

In fact, it is among the leaders contributing to our GDP growth, with huge potential. We keep sending our people to institutions of higher learning in the sciences, engineering, and management. Working together for a common goal that is theirs. All of these need powering. We need energy. Kagame: Right.

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 There are a staggering 250 collective management organizations overseeing digital content, according to a 2014 EC press release. million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs. One energy hog, the IT sector, has managed to level off energy use in data centers. Trump Shocked the World.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

of GDP on health care vs. 18% by the United States. Unlike the TCJA, which the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimates will add the full amount of corporate savings to the federal deficit, a health care stimulus bill would offer far greater corporate savings with no net impact on the federal budget. .”

Health Care 8

Health Care Budgeting Insurance Cost 8