The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2019

of GDP on research and development by 2027. “However, businesses can find knowing where to start, and how to navigate a new and complex landscape challenging.” The UK government has recently set an ambitious target of spending 2.4% ” Making improvements.

Report 61

Report CRM GDP Innovation 61

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2013

Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. How are we going to contribute to solutions without communicating with those who are most affected? How will we even be able to identify the struggles that plague these communities?

Education 169

Education Globalization Politics Learning-by-Doing 169

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 16, 2011

percentage points from GDP, based on the average of 2010's first three quarters. And now they are divided about how to get out of the slump and worried that U.S. In 2005, housing accounted for 6.1 percent of economic activity in the U.S. Last year, inflation-adjusted investment in new homes probably subtracted 0.17

Real Estate 95

Real Estate GDP Uncertainty Crisis 95

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 28, 2019

It is the study of employment, the forces of productivity and the factors impacting gross domestic product (GDP). We want to learn how to do the things we like, that the organization we work for values, and have the comfort of knowing we can continue to do those things until we determine it is time to learn something else — or not!

Motivation 40

Motivation GDP Influence Learning-by-Doing 40

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

Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Charitable giving in US has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970. How to be as wise as serpents and gentle as a dove as non-profits: 1. Talents, system and strategies matter. We pay a corporate executive that makes sugar water more than someone who is trying to cure the world of AIDS. Finances handcuff non-profits. 46,000 for profits.

Henderson 46

Henderson GDP Edmondson Learning-by-Doing 46

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Here’s how to execute a great supply chain strategy without getting tied up in knots. Getting our goods from one location to another is just really, really expensive.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

GDP and corporate taxes 6%; in the third quarter of 2011, profits were up to 13.1% of GDP and corporate taxes down to 2.7%. corporations, through growth of their overseas operations and increasingly aggressive tax management, have already dramatically reduced their U.S. tax burden. In 1950, corporate profits equaled 12% of U.S.

GDP 13

GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 13

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And the movement to measure national well-being on factors other than GDP could be game changing: As we know, what gets measured gets managed. We’ve learned a lot about how to make people happy. ” I am torn on how to review and rate The Happiness Advantage. We’d be stupid not to use that knowledge.”

Review 65

Review GDP Positioning Follow-up 65

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

There is no shortage of ideas on how to fix the economy. Small businesses constitute the majority of our GDP and have historically been the source of most new job creation. An economy that derives 70% of its GDP from consumer spending cannot sustain stable growth when average consumers don't have money to spend.

GDP 13

GDP Planning Cost of Capital Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

The economy is growing steadily, the unemployment rate is below 5%, and on GDP per capita America still is one of the richest countries in the world. The United States is one of the richest countries in the sample, ranking 5th out of 133 on GDP per capita, and yet is 19th in the world on social progress. So what’s the problem?

GDP 8

GDP Health Care Education Politics 8

Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. It’s common to hear someone say about the U.S., “We We have the best health care system in the world.” Based on what facts? According to World Health Organization stats, the U.S. doesn’t even make the top 10 countries for healthy life expectancy.

Health Care 167

Health Care Insurance Executive Coaching Blog 167

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%

GDP 9

GDP Bond Sample Sharpe 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Median income has stagnated for decades and mere "recovery" probably isn't enough to do much about it, because GDP isn't concerned with who gets what. And if we all go right back to doing exactly the same old stuff, for the same old reasons, earning the same rewards.well, that's how incomes stagnated to begin with. Dehumanization.

GDP 19

GDP Hypercompetition Offshoring Long-term 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

The financial industry accounts for about 8% of GDP, but about 32% of corporate profits. Both valid points, but both miss the crucial issue. The deeper question concerns the function of the financial sector within the macro economy. Here also there are two issues.

How To 8

How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6% of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. But the impact of the industry on Brazil’s natural resources — and global GHG emissions — has been intense.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

How to Become a Digital Enterprise. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. The digital economy is making significant contributions to global gross domestic product (GDP), outpacing global growth by 400 percent. Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

America doubled down on a strategy of suburbs, automobiles, housing, and the debt-fueled trappings of a consumer economy, which worked like gangbusters, boosting GDP for the nation, creating millions of jobs, and swelling corporate profits left and right. There are tons of stats showing we're in a brand new world.

Management 15

Management GDP Retail Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Characteristics: These cities tend to have high population growth and high growth rates in GDP per capita, demographic and economic tailwinds that help to boost returns. Examples: Phu My Hung, Vietnam; Suzhou, China; Astana, Kazakhstan; Singapore (historically).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. In 2010, just under 11% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing, and manufacturing contributed 13% of GDP. Even with wages and benefits that are higher than those in the U.S. In the U.S.,

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

It boasts world class economic advisors, many of whom have gone to Harvard, the University of Chicago, or other similarly esteemed institutions, and all of whom know how to diversify the nation's portfolio, make sensible tradeoffs, and execute wise, carefully considered investment decisions. China is one of the world's most shrewd investors.

GDP 15

GDP Class Budgeting Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP. economy are asking whether we learned enough from the 2008 crisis about how to manage risk in the financial system. Governments were reducing spending in order to bring their debt levels under control. Where does the Euro go from here?

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

GDP growth isn’t actually all that good a predictor of income growth for ordinary working households." So even while GDP growth ticks anemically up in developed countries, workers don't feel better off. How to Negotiate Your Parental Leave (HBR.org). TRICKLE DOWN PETERS OUT. Here's the rub," explains James Plunkett.

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Budgeting Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 One is how to tailor new mobility approaches to a city or region’s specific context and challenges. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Global Prosperity and How to Achieve it (HBR Press, 2011). Are you, too, susceptible to globaloney? Pankaj Ghemawat is the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona, and the author of World 3.0:

Globalization 15

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." Moving on to the pursuit of profit, which is baked in at every level of our economic and personal lives. "On

GDP 12

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5 Rethinking how to allocate funds to keep people healthy and functional and preventing disease, as opposed to spending 28% of health care dollars on people who will be dead in two years as we currently do, has to be a priority.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation GDP Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. As companies think about how to change this, they should focus on the jobs that will survive into the future. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

of their GDP in foreign aid, as they promised to do in 1992 at Rio de Janeiro, that would only mean the foreign poor would receive 1/15,000th as much as the domestic poor. For more suggestions on how to change individual mindsets, see the last chapter of my new book World 3.0: Hardly a promise to value every human being equally.

Globalization 14

Globalization GDP Survey Comparison 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Not coincidentally, this decline in companies’ research quotient or RQ ( a metric I’ve developed that measures R&D productivity , or how much output they get for their innovation inputs) mimics the decline in U.S. GDP growth over the past 30 years. The challenge, of course, is knowing what to fix and how to fix it.

Gordon 10

Gordon Company Innovation Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Lloyd Blankfein recently told a TV audience that income inequality is “very destabilizing” and that “too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.” Involved employees come up with more innovative ideas, figure out how to solve problems, and go the extra mile for customers.

Management 8

Management Business Model Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Their lower employment numbers and growth aspirations have historically led to questions of how to "fix" them. If women''s labor participation were closer to male participation, it would contribute $1T to GDP in emerging economies — women led businesses are key to this opportunity.

Globalization 14

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance , just published by Random House. In doing so, they often fail to ask the right questions beyond which acronym rolls of the tongue most easily. Parag Khanna, Ph.D,

Banking 15

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

Not all business models are created equal, and we will learn how to design and improve business models in the coming decade. Yet the world's top advanced economies today derive most of their GDP from services rather than products or agriculture. The rise of multinational companies from BRIC economies will further advance this trend.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

How to Be a Company That Employees Love. trillion, or 2%, to global GDP and increase employment by 72 million full-time-equivalent positions by 2025. More often ignored is the growing population of contingent workers, including independent contractors, statement-of-work-based labor, and freelancers who provide services to corporations.

Company 8

Company Automotive MBO Globalization 8

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.

Disruptive Innovation 15

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They quickly identify what’s not working and redirect resources to the most pressing problem — how to improve this year’s exam results. increase in gross domestic product (GDP), as better educated students are more knowledgable, more innovative and earn more money. How can we appoint more Architects?

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8