Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

In case you skimmed too fast to get the point, here it is: that favored benchmark of national performance, GDP growth or GDP per capita, is a distortion of reality that guides us to decisions contrary to what people really want. despite hiring some noted academics to mortarboard-wash our conclusions with statistics and citations.

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GDP Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The Chinese admire America, especially its entrepreneurial spirit and track record in commercializing innovation. America should not underestimate China's capacity to innovate. From gunpowder on, the history of Chinese innovation is strong. When the Chinese can no longer make easy money imitating, they will start innovating.

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Innovation Long-term Politics GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

Then it enables them to improvise and innovate while performing their otherwise rote tasks, encouraging them to relate to customers in individualized and often distinctive ways. The chain has created an incredibly compelling human interface for its stores where, arguably, every cashier is an innovator. The result?

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Innovation Hotels GDP Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 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.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

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.” Begin with an obvious but often overlooked truth: labor and management don’t have diametrically opposed goals. Rising inequality reflects two trends.

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Management Business Model Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage.

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Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Aggregate data with system-wide interoperability to enable transparency and knowledge sharing. Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff.

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Health Care Content Power GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

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GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

What exactly are the issues that people have with Europe’s innovativeness? Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. Let’s look at innovativeness. The US is usually seen as a hotbed of innovation.

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Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

s 21 million ) in its four-year tertiary education system. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. The value created by Facebook and a few other tech IPOs exceeds the GDP of most African regions. Even at three times the U.S.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

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Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Indeed, writes Aaron Hurst in a Stanford Social Innovation Review blog, there is an increasingly popular perspective that supporting business is a charitable act. By 2016, four out of ten jobs will require advanced education or training, and many hiring managers are already finding that the talent they need is hard to find. "If

GDP 12

GDP Sports Short-term Education 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Therefore we need to see significantly greater investment in the education systems of these parts of the world – and others. But as good managers have discovered in so many realms of human need, pure philanthropy is not the only means for addressing social challenges. To be clear, this is not about privatizing state education systems.

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GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. Carvalho talked about increasing investment (investment’s share of GDP is lower in Brazil than any other major Latin American economy), which would surely help.

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GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

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

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 Sounds good; “New investment in innovative technologies” makes a great headline for the next earnings call or annual report. But these investments are not the avenues to the robust growth that innovative technology offers. Innovation Strategic planning Strategy'

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Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 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. Innovation atrophy. Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge.

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Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Data from the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Economic growth of just under 5% a year would see consumer spending rise by 60% over the course of the next decade, even if consumption’s share of GDP doesn’t budge. Innovative business models may be required. E-commerce is helping to overcome this barrier. But China presents a unique set of challenges.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

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. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Google generates most of its revenue through an auction-based system of selling ads that was developed by two engineers but validated by its chief economist, Hal Varian, a former consultant to the company who was also the first Dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. Economists and big data.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

growth in GDP. For example, Vox Capital — founded in Brazil in 2008 by three young social entrepreneurs — invests in innovative, high-potential businesses that serve low-income populations and contribute to the reduction of poverty. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5%

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If more of them can be identified, developed, and appointed, we believe the whole education system will improve. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. Five Types of Leader. billion and $7.6

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Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. Maybe profitability has been high because a continuing stream of “big bang” innovations have added so much value that companies can keep a large chunk as profits even while lowering prices for consumers.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

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. I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.".

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. In addition, the cattle raised under this system are larger and higher quality than animals raised using standard practices, and can command a higher price at the slaughterhouse. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. GDP while undertaking 40.9% Multinationals' shares of employment, capital investment, and output in the U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How organizations are changing.

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Management Software BPM Technology 12

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.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Until you ask yourself: how often, despite billions spent on "service," "creativity," "innovation," "changing the game," "motivation," "leadership," and assorted other magical buzzword-incantations, has something like the preceding happened to you, anywhere — ever? Now, this might sound entirely trivial. So what was James getting?

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Short-term Long-term Open-book Consultative 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cluster hammers had never been used to such depths — and never in Chile at all — but in a striking display of openness, the managers of the rescue operation tried the suggestion, which proved to be a key decision in bringing all 33 miners to safety. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center. Missing the forest for the trees.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. Similarly, many hospitals are also adopting real-time location systems to track the movement of people and equipment throughout their facilities. The absence of fixed costs for customers attracted small and innovative web developers. jamie jones/Getty Images.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Our brains evolved to respond reflexively to immediate threats but ignore or downplay systemic crises that creep up on us. But as the carbon vortex gains momentum, there is also evidence of an equal and opposite vortex pulling us toward breakthrough innovation and a more sustainable future.

Execution 8

Execution White Paper Shaw Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

So as an asset, Bitcoin (I''m trying to follow Maria Bustillos'' rule of capitalizing the system but lowercasing the coins) is clearly in a bubble, and always has been. Since then the focus has moved on to inflation or, recently, nominal-GDP targeting. Then again, lots of important financial innovations start out like that.

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