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Morning Advantage: Robots!

Harvard Business Review

While military use is driving much of this innovation now, like so many military innovations — from the wristwatch to the Internet — we can expect robots to reshape our lives, and our businesses, in the future. GDP growth isn’t actually all that good a predictor of income growth for ordinary working households."

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. But the scales have now tipped in favor of accelerating growth. And capital continues to expand.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

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. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Women''s entrepreneurship has hit a media tipping point. 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.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

If Pearson is looking at, say, a new online learning course, Mr. Jackson is part of early product design meetings, offering tips on what user interaction data should be collected, how, and how often a course might be tweaked. “It forces our internal teams to think about innovating faster,” said Mr. Jackson.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

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. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

In a subtle tipping point, the total global generating capacity from renewables passed coal this year. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs. days of innovation). In essence, the company decided to promote system change and even invited competitors to its innovation lab for the first time in its history.

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