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). Microeconomics – More of a focused spotlight , this is the study of market-specific dynamics and prices. How much of what I currently know how to do is still going to be relevant? What’s selling? What isn’t?

Motivation 40

Motivation GDP Influence Learning-by-Doing 40

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. Get Better At Returns.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

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

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

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

There is no shortage of ideas on how to fix the economy. Forget the deficit, monetary policy, stimuli, stock markets, corporations, taxes — that stuff makes my head spin (and apparently the economy as well). Small businesses constitute the majority of our GDP and have historically been the source of most new job creation.

GDP 12

GDP Planning Cost of Capital Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

How to Become a Digital Enterprise. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. How can companies thrive on these changes?

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

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

DECEMBER 20, 2012

market growing. 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. They want to see the U.S.

GDP 14

GDP Class Budgeting Long-term 14

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. We hope this will serve as a powerful motivator to improve leaders’ decision making and bring sustainable business practices further into the mainstream. Brazil’s Beef Industry.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

The financial industry accounts for about 8% of GDP, but about 32% of corporate profits. But "revolution" — in the sense of a shift of power and influence away from those who currently hold it — could come at a much grander scale, through the loss of faith in global market capitalism within the developing world.

How To 8

How To GDP Finance Policies 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. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. Even with wages and benefits that are higher than those in the U.S.

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Characteristics: Most physical and institutional structures are already in place in these megacities, but with fast-growing populations and severe congestion, there is an opportunity to create value by improving efficiency and livability, and there is a market of customers with cash to pay for these benefits.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 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. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. Their lower employment numbers and growth aspirations have historically led to questions of how to "fix" them. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Perhaps no term has so captured the global analyst community since the coinage of "emerging markets" itself. Clever turns of phrase can fool many except those who actually spent time in emerging markets and ask tough questions. In doing so, they often fail to ask the right questions beyond which acronym rolls of the tongue most easily.

Banking 14

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. Economics and logistics. But there are some very important exceptions.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

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 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

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. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

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

AUGUST 24, 2012

trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. Based on research my organization has conducted (PDF) on the immigrant business population, here's how to get started: 1. Their stories are just some of the many examples of immigrants who've seized opportunities and brought them to market. Adopt An Immigrant Perspective.

Career 14

Career GDP Crisis Long-term 14

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. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

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. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. The best VCs have successfully identified major industry disruptions before they occur.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. On the really big questions — how to run the economy, for example — the mainstream view described by Lazear has continued to dominate.

Tversky 12

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Is it better to attach conditions, or do the poor know best how to spend their money? 5% of GDP over six years. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.” Do you give them cash or assets ?

Microfinance 8

Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The heated arguments our politicians and public intellectuals have been having about how to reboot the economy just address the symptoms, not the deeper malady: Our industrial-era economic institutions have become, in our tiny, fragile, crowded world, a cage. So how do the powers that be break out of that cage and resolve these dilemmas?

Globalization 15

Globalization IPO Decentralization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

The economist Robert Shiller has suggested issuing bonds that are linked to GDP, arguing that "the opportunity to participate in the uncertain economic growth of the issuer might well excite, rather than scare off, investors — just as it does in the stock market.". Clearly, a new approach is desperately needed.

GDP 8

GDP Bond How To Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

What's likely to happen, without institutional innovation — without better building blocks for markets, corporations, and economies, in this case? We've never needed Big New Ideas — fundamentally transformative ideas about how to organize the economy, society, and polity — more. What should you and I do next?

How To 12

How To Sharpe Crisis Class 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

We must aspire to a statistically significant increase in charitable giving as a percentage of GDP. Charitable giving has remained stuck at 2% of GDP in the U.S. In forty years, the nonprofit sector has not taken any market share away from the for-profit sector. It’s how we’ve always done things. That’s not the future.

GDP 8

GDP Budgeting Education Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP. needs a healthy corporate tax system, the next question is how to better design one.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The threats that climate change poses to business, markets, and, indeed, capitalism are peculiarly hard for most top teams to spot, let alone act on. Such market dynamics behave like vortices — a whirlwind in the air, or a whirlpool in water. Plunge into the data. ” So in what medium is the carbon vortex forming?

Execution 8

Execution White Paper Shaw Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

its ratio of exports to GDP, has been rising slowly for decades but remains significantly lower than in the European Union, China, and India. Perhaps that’s because the most productive firms benefit from export growth, or it could be because domestic firms become more productive by competing in export markets.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Insurance Industry 8