The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 18, 2021

The link appears to be far stronger in terms of economic growth, with the research finding that 90% of the growth in GDP could be attributed to higher energy usage. That’s in terms of GDP at least, as when economic prosperity was measured using purchasing power parity, this appeared to provide a much closer link.

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Energy GDP Short-term Long-term 97

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2023

In total, they assess cities according to nine distinct metrics: human capital, which includes the ability to attract and develop talent social cohesion , which covers the harmony with which different social groups can rub along together economy , which focuses on the current and predicted GDP of the city governance , and how well each city is governed (..)

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Human Capital Tourism Metrics Transportation 114

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 10, 2022

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. This time spent in meetings is not time well spent, however, as the study found that the meetings are typically of low quality. Such meetings are defined in a number of ways.

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Products Productivity GDP Survey 126

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Many of the issues that the Booz index identifies are ones that were spotlighted in the Center for Talent Innovation's research on women professionals in emerging markets. Booz estimates, for example, that if female employment rates were to match male rates in the United States, overall GDP would rise by 5%.

GDP 15

GDP Globalization Politics Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. The Legatum people reason that in order for keep the focus on our real priorities, we need to measure the other components of prosperity as carefully as we do GDP, profits, and individual income.

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GDP Learning-by-Doing Benchmarking Policies 17

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

3) Don’t let “freedom from” obstruct “freedom to.” Social media can help liberate employees from traditional hierarchies and structures that stifle collaboration and innovation but only if new frameworks replace what previously existed. The right values, principles and behaviors offer resilience in a socially networked world.

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How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

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 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Respond to people's expectations for access and quality. US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5

Health Care 16

Health Care Innovation GDP Cost 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. The 1980s saw the rise of total quality management in the U.S.,

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

As a percentage of GDP, it’s now back to mid-1990s levels: There’s a version of the chart above in the much - discussed paper that MIT economist David Autor presented last week at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting. After the dot-com bubble, investment in software and information processing equipment in the U.S.

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GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 21

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

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Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Startup activity can signal a city’s economic potential, but it’s actually the quality of the startups, not the quantity, that matters. We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring.

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GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

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. The modeling and simulation relies on two important features.

GDP 15

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Without the ability to create knowledge through quality education, the sustainability of Africa’s new-found optimism remains questionable. My first semester was transformative; I experienced top-rate academic quality. In quality and quantity, tertiary education in Africa needs to be fixed. publicly traded companies.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

We know innovation drives corporate growth. As Strategy& reported in its 2015 survey of 1,757 executives, “innovation today is a key driver of organic growth for all companies — regardless of sector or geography.” GDP growth over the past 30 years. One possible explanation is that R&D has gotten harder.

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Gordon Company Innovation Industry 15

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

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). Education (access to education, quality of education, and human capital).

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Social Capital GDP Human Capital Education 22

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

MARCH 14, 2017

Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments. Here, the government’s innovative capacity shone through. Data Quality and Context Still Matter — a Lot. Silver bullets, such as drastic demonetization, don’t work. Consider some additional data for the last quarter of 2016. instead of 7%.

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Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 15

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

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.

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Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 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. Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

And we need to focus on the aspect of the situation that surprises me the most: the lack of innovative financing mechanisms to allow investors (companies, individuals, or governments) to channel much needed funds to where we all know they will reap a reward. higher GDP per capita than countries with average literacy scores.

GDP 11

GDP Education Finance Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

” Rapid technological advance in computers and automation has led to a huge fall in the quality-adjusted price of capital equipment. Firms with a cost or quality advantage have always enjoyed higher market shares. The disagreement is over why labor has been losing out. Maybe the leading story is “Robocalypse Now.”

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GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

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. “But when we implemented sustainable practices, our quality immediately increased.

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 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. Enronian companies would be chronically unable to create jobs (especially higher quality jobs). Unemployment.

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Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. Policy can help through measures like capital access programs, business accelerators, or tax incentives.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale the kind of breakthrough ideas that will begin to solve the huge social problems we face today. Where would all the money come from?

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Learning Curve Advertising GDP Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

More than 15 percent of the country's investment goes into real estate, and around 12 percent of GDP comes from property-related industries. Increased urbanization, construction, and vertical living, driving tremendous new demand for sources of safe and renewable energy.

Industry 13

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You might well be surprised at both the mass of empirical data they gather and, on occasion, the innovativeness of a study's conception and underlying ideas. If you doubt this, take a look at the recent publications list of the World Bank , the U.S. Department of Commerce , or the United Nations.

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NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. The limitations of GDP have long been recognized. Academics have also joined the post-GDP party. This past Friday, the U.S.

GDP 10

GDP Education Industry Information Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

While a certain amount of exploration is healthy, most innovation is of the small-scale, one improvement at a time, variety — even with data. Some data is inherently inaccurate (GDP forecasts); other data becomes inaccurate through processing errors. Unless there is a solid quality program in place, expect the data to be poor!

Information Technology 10

Information Technology Uncertainty Short-term GDP 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The strength of a nation’s economy and the vitality of its society depend on the quality of its schools. increase in gross domestic product (GDP), as better educated students are more knowledgable, more innovative and earn more money. So why does the UK still lag behind its peers, despite investing more than them?

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Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

Innovation 10

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 10

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120