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. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Effective internal systems, processes, and value chains will always be essential, but enterprises will increasingly need to harness the skills, capabilities, and passions of the external market. Industries dominated by information-rich assets (think publishing and music) were swept up in the early wave of internet innovation.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Aggregate data with system-wide interoperability to enable transparency and knowledge sharing. Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The United States takes pride in being on the cutting edge of all things digital, and rightly so: American innovations and innovators have led the way. economy operates at only 18% of its digital potential, and the sort of productivity gains that digital technologies should be enabling are not showing up in the broader economy.

Company 8

Company Technology Innovation GDP 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. companies are great at improving existing operations and thinking of new ways to apply technology to drive productivity. to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

s 21 million ) in its four-year tertiary education system. Today’s model is using African diasporas where companies hire native Africans living abroad and then send them to the continent to expand their operations. The value created by Facebook and a few other tech IPOs exceeds the GDP of most African regions.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Instead of directing the money to specific causes, Buffett could have revolutionized the system, or the context within which the causes he cares about have to operate. Warren Buffett could have built something — a new system for dramatically expanding charity in America. No charity would be able to game the system.

Advertising 14

Advertising GDP System Public Relations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Superstar companies make lots of profit per employee, so as they become a bigger and bigger part of the economy, the overall share of GDP going to labor goes down. Indeed, we show that the industries where concentration has risen the most are also those where there has been the fastest growth in productivity and innovation.

GDP 8

GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 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. The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. Cuba desperately needs to do away with its dual currency system. Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. Currency confusion.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. In a separate paper , my coauthor and I find that community banks in developing and emerging economies reduce lending after disasters because systemic loan defaults deplete bank capital. In the U.S., In light of these problems, what can we do to fix them?

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

By comparison, China's FDI stock equals 8% of its GDP; more than 70% of that FDI consists of wholly foreign-owned enterprises (as opposed to joint ventures); and foreign firms produce half of China's exports and more than 90% of China's high-tech exports. Of course, this system has turned China into a manufacturing juggernaut.

Comparison 14

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

trillion to the GDP, or about one-fifth of the nation's total gross domestic product. Reform the corporate tax system: Simplifying the tax code by eliminating special tax deductions and credits in return for lower rates will allow retailers to grow and create jobs. Retail contributes $2.5

Retail 12

Retail Policies Supply Chain Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Businesses and governments will have to work together to increase productivity, encourage innovation, and improve integration in supply chains toward a sustainable global food balance. Farmers must also grow more on the land they currently operate through what is called “sustainable intensification.”

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 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% shares of the global operations of U.S.-based of all U.S. A Shift Abroad.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. Another is that short-term oriented companies are so desperate for margins that they’re hollowing out their operations or eating their R&D seed-corn. Corporate profits have risen relative to overall GDP.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

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.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

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. A study found that 18% of school age girls in Rwanda, for instance, miss school because menstrual pads are too expensive.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

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.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. 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.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The United States corporate tax system is in desperate need of reform, and there are many sources of discontent. raises less corporate tax revenue than peer countries do, and the system is mind-numbingly complex, rife with distortion, and widely perceived to be unfair. companies are not being held back by the corporate tax code.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. For existing health care companies, the operative words in that mandate have been “health care”; for Amazon, the operative words likely are “service that needs to be delivered to a customer.” jamie jones/Getty Images.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As consolidation expands, data and transparency become increasingly important, as a way to ensure that caregivers across the system are providing comparable care. To remain viable in today’s rapidly evolving environment, health care systems must reduce costs while continuing to improve quality and outcomes. percent in 1960.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Innovation and change.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It is the backbone of the digital economy that contributes up to 8% of the GDP of G-20 economies. As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems. It would be like building a home with state-of-the-art alarm systems, but then cutting off the power to them.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

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

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Indeed, it’s GDP per capita of $72,700 marks it out as one of the wealthiest nations on earth. . Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Core sectors.

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs. digital giants in these countries. But China has a long way to go to play this role.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In our Digital Evolution Index (DEI), we place them in the “digital south” which means the full deployment and adoption of online systems is still in development. The data will establish a social credit system expected to be both mandatory by 2020. billion citizens.

Airlines 10

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

Fixed Costs 15

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

Fixed Costs 8

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. First, evidence of a radically altered climate system has become crystal clear. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs. days of innovation). Why all this progress?

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Our back-of-the-envelope estimate revealed $10 billion to $20 billion in annual revenues if things are done right--that's about 10 to 15 percent of the current GDP of Israel. Indeed, inventive negotiators transform bargaining into an innovation process, integrating the best practices of each. Does that sound crazy? We don't think so.

Tourism 13

Tourism Committee Real Estate GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The benchmark, therefore, is a tool for policy makers, technology innovators, and others to evaluate progress and prioritize the gaps, thus enabling a dialogue among the key actors and a plan for action. Methodology. Each component is made up of different clusters of indicators.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

When people talk of valuable platforms, they are typically thinking of things like the operating systems for personal computers, tablet computers, and smartphones, all of which allow and indeed encourage software developers to invent “apps”; or the Amazon selling system which provides a layer of basic logistical functions for independent retailers.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8