Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

I'm 100% for science and technology, and especially for basic research. Imagine that I pioneer a wondrous nanomaterials startup that offers everyone a blindingly awesome new technology. We've never needed Big New Ideas — fundamentally transformative ideas about how to organize the economy, society, and polity — more.

How To 10

How To Sharpe Crisis Class 10

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

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 9

Gordon Company Innovation Industry 9

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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. So how do Israeli ventures scale up? But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 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 13

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 13

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

APRIL 20, 2015

Treasury securities; the world’s largest trading nation; the world’s largest e-commerce market; and the world’s largest economy in purchasing-power-parity terms. are in Asia and a fourth Asian country, India, has the potential to become the fastest-growing large emerging market in the world. Undermining U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Lots of people blamed Greenspan for some or all of this, and the man himself famously allowed, in a Congressional hearing in October 2008, that he had “found a flaw” in his model of how the world works.

Long-term 10

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Since then the focus has moved on to inflation or, recently, nominal-GDP targeting. But far fewer people were paying attention then, and on its current trajectory the market seems destined to become dominated by gamblers and greater fools. Economy Innovation Technology' Eventually, we figured it out.

Price 8

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that without major change, it will account for more than 20% of GDP by 2021, up from 5.2% Why Health Care Is Stuck — and How to Fix It. American health care is on an unsustainable path. Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. percent in 1960. Health Operations'

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

In these cases Rwanda had eroded assets, but there was a foundation and a proof point, a market test that these areas could be successful and they could be competitive. Then the discussion was really about, "How do we move forward? How do we upgrade? How do we make things more sophisticated? All of these need powering.

Porter 9

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 9

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

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. If you are a bookkeeping accounting or auditing clerk, 86% of your tasks could be automated with current technology - and there are 1.6 and China.

Politics 8

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. For all these reasons, purely market-focused strategies oblivious to the sociopolitical context are more likely than ever to prove blinkered. This is not just true for the U.S. but everywhere… This requires dramatic transformation. in the U.S.,

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

While it’s understandable that stock and currency markets would react this way to the outcome of the election, I believe that it’s somewhat of an overreaction. The price of steel is set in international markets and is subject to high cyclical variations. New Zealand is the world’s largest exporter of dairy products.

Cooper 12

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 12