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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We’ve been puzzled by the fact that business travel has been growing faster than world GDP, despite the widespread adoption of alternatives like Skype, FaceTime, email, etc.,” We posited that maybe there is a difference between moving information and moving brains. the researchers say. “We

Travel 124

Travel Tacit Knowledge Airlines GDP 124

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 9, 2022

“In the long run, women losing or leaving their jobs in bulk will not only negatively affect global GDP. And if they stay, they may see their careers suffer due to reduced ability to focus on their work,” the researchers explain. It will also reverse the progress that was being made before the pandemic.”

GDP 108

GDP Career Information Policies 108

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 16, 2021

The first of these removes any positive density effects on productivity; the second eliminates any positive effects on our quality of life from social interactions, and the third combines one and two. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4% On the move.

GDP 84

GDP Quality Media Incentives 84

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s perhaps a mark of the times that the optimism surrounding the potential for social media to positively impact society wrought by the Arab Spring has dissipated into a more dystopian world of fake news and mass disinformation. Indeed, those countries also appeared happier than citizens of countries with higher GDP per capita.

GDP 73

GDP Politics Comparison Media 73

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 10, 2022

Of course, this isn’t to suggest that remote working had no positive impact, as indeed research from Kellogg Business School identified recently. The analysis found that GDP would likely have fallen by around twice as much during 2020 if remote working was not the option it ultimately was.

Productivity 106

Productivity Products GDP Survey 106

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of course, this isn’t to suggest that remote working had no positive impact, as indeed research from Kellogg Business School identified recently. The analysis found that GDP would likely have fallen by around twice as much during 2020 if remote working was not the option it ultimately was.

GDP 59

GDP Analysis Productivity Products 59

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Compared to other countries, the UK spends relatively little of its GDP on active labor market programs, including public employment services. In short, the research indicates that a different approach is necessary, one that matches job seekers with positions that more closely meet their needs and align with local demands.

Policies 59

Policies GDP Proposal Budgeting 59

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2020

The researchers posit that businesses can absorb the shock of brief lockdowns by calling on their reserves. Such countries saw their GDP fall by around 20%, due to drops in consumer demand and supply chain disruptions. In other words, it’s the length of the lockdown that matters rather than the severity of it. Global impact.

Supply Chain 83

Supply Chain Globalization GDP Short-term 83

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Are we all entrepreneurs now? in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

Venture Capitalist 52

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

economy depends on technological progress, but recent data suggests that innovation is getting harder and the pace of growth is slowing down. A major challenge in business and policy spheres is to understand the environments that are most conducive to innovation. was so innovative. The innovation sector was highly competitive.

Innovation 12

Innovation GDP Education Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Earlier this week, Nigeria ascended to the position of Africa’s largest economy following a recalculation of its GDP by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As with a second Japanese study , when sentiment was more positive towards immigrants, it was generally towards highly skilled ones, who are deemed as filling gaps in domestic supply. Research from Sweden’s Linnaeus University helps to explain this, as it highlights a growing negative sentiment towards immigration.

Skills 110

Skills GDP Analysis System 110

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

But too often CEOs find themselves stuck in what I call an innovation plateau. A main indicator of how widespread this plateau has become is the decline in corporate investment in R&D, the invisible infrastructure that supports true innovation. GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Innovation Strategy: Timing and Scope.

Innovation 10

Innovation Market Segmentation GDP Competitive Advantage 10

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?

Innovation 13

Innovation Hotels GDP Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services. Hence, a richer pool of expertise, experiences, and perspectives can create positive outcomes for the organization.

Long-term 10

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. Factor accumulation (capital and labour) thus accounts for about 60 to 70% of GDP growth.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

those who have the talent and drive to be inventive and enterprising) were happy at work, or at least felt that their ideas are being valued, they would contribute to innovation and growth in their employers' organization, rather than setting up their own company. Indeed, if entrepreneurial employees (i.e.,

Leadership 17

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors. Second is that returns for front-runners tend to be large.

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. Entrepreneurship & Opportunity (entrepreneurial environment, innovative activity, and access to opportunity). Doing so, however, produces insights on vital questions the answers to which are not yet (and may never be) reflected in GDP.

Social Capital 17

Social Capital GDP Human Capital Education 17

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. Outside Europe, though, opinions are distinctly less positive. Let’s look at innovativeness.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

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. Through my experience, I’ve seen how a university could improve its community.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 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. But it still seems like it’s a much better position to be in than not having any productivity growth at all. Disruptive innovation Economy Productivity'

GDP 11

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

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. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Terran Lane, a former comp-sci professor at the University of New Mexico, recently left his tenured position for a gig at Google, and he doesn’t mince words as to why in a spirited, anti-academia apologia on his Ars Experientia blog. Of course, the private sector is fraught with innovation problems too. LET THE GAMES BEGIN.

Sports 8

Sports Peer Review GDP Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. The opportunities to innovate will differ greatly by segment. Yelp, Zillow, and Trip Advisor are examples of innovations in this context.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9 Though economic growth remains a highly uncertain area of study, virtually all economists agree that technological innovation plays a central role.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

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

APRIL 11, 2012

We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. 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."

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Overall, Graetz and Michaels conclude that the use of robots within manufacturing raised the annual growth of labor productivity and GDP by 0.36 That might not seem like a lot but it represents 10% of total GDP growth in the countries studied and 16% of labor productivity growth over that time period.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. 4% of US GDP). I was at my local gym outside of Boston early one morning and ran into a friend I hadn't seen in several months.

GDP 14

GDP Technology Cost Education 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Donors are strongly urged to seek out the organizations with the best, most innovative programs and fund those programs. Those correlations are all positive. at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged. Either way, they're squandering the real and massive potential of their capital. How could it?

GDP 14

GDP Human Resources Finance Technology 14

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 5, 2020

Much of this slump has been driven by fears that the resulting economic downturn could last for years, with many economists predicting a fall in GDP of at least 10%. The model looks at whether positive or negative framing of the pandemic coincide with fluctuations in the market. Non-stop news. Negative framing.

GDP 78

GDP Analysis Crisis Marketing 78

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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Here a few notable examples. Economists and big data.

Strategy 12

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