Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. The short answer we find from our research is: No. 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.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In the US, we achieve some of these goals for some of the people, but none of these goals for all of the people. US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5 Respond to people's expectations for access and quality. Provide financial security against the costs of ill-health.

Health Care 14

Health Care Innovation GDP Cost 14

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. This worked, because both crises were short-lived (lasting approximately 1-1.5 Why Russia is still attractive. Demand quickly bounced back.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

And is that, perhaps, the prime mover of what both Tyler Cowen and I have termed a Great Stagnation? 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. Let's call it Enronia, for short.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. New capital is still flowing to the clean tech — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and some other business leaders just announced a $1 billion fund to invest in “next generation energy technologies.”

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

To be sure, these roadblocks to further trade and investment will damage Mexico’s economy in the short and medium terms. However, I fear that Mexico continuing its existing trade-based economic strategy will not necessarily produce different results in the long term — as it wouldn’t for any other developing country.

Cooper 12

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 12