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.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect. Mexico and Brazil alone account for over 60% of Latin America’s GDP and most regional revenue for multinationals. growth in real GDP.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It took a second recession in Europe, along with a change in leadership before the ECB undertook to do “whatever it takes” to save the Euro. But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP. There was, moreover, no attempt to introduce QE in Europe at this time.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Joe Bower and Lynn Paine “had me at hello” (to quote Jerry Maguire ) with their new HBR article, “ The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.” Critics of this idea argue that it would simply ensconce bad management. For everybody else in the system, it is an improvement.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term NPV 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

GDP spent on health care continues to rise, reaching 17.9% Medicare contracts with these entities to deliver coordinated care for the Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, which has led to the mergers of many delivery systems. Hayon Thapaliya. The percentage of U.S. health care. (The

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Incentives 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. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

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.

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

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. Given the very high cost of continuous patient monitoring systems and paucity of nursing staff, vitals are monitored only three to four times a day in the general ward.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The West defeated the Soviet Union not through warfare but by maintaining a superior economic system with higher technological standards. s Human Development Index and the standard economic measure of per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress.

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

It was the largest sovereign debt default in world history, and GDP fell by some 30% coupled with a 300% currency devaluation. By contrast, coaching that focuses on weaknesses arouses the sympathetic nervous system and does just the opposite. Coaching Hiring Leadership Managing people Organizational culture'

Emotional Intelligence 9

Emotional Intelligence GDP McKinsey Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Today’s climate challenge is so far beyond our collective experience that it demands a radically different kind of engagement from senior leadership teams in the private sector. Our brains evolved to respond reflexively to immediate threats but ignore or downplay systemic crises that creep up on us.

Execution 8

Execution White Paper Shaw Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

The announcement from the Bank of England today was very useful and said two things — first that the banking system in the UK is much much stronger than it was in 2008. If there are spillovers from Brexit onto them, it will require some probable extension of monetary stimulus, maybe some fiscal stimulus, but it’s all manageable.

Banking 9

Banking Short-term Long-term Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. First, evidence of a radically altered climate system has become crystal clear. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs. Trump Shocked the World.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. This confusion is most apparent in the area of software, where very often the hard transition from the prototype (often little more than a rough idea) to the stably implemented mass-user system tends to be romanticized away.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Look at China 30 years ago and the role it had in global GDP. They have to play more of a leadership role. It means that the Chinese are at a very different level of development with a different economic and political system, and it should surprise us very much for the Chinese to act any differently than they do.

Long-term 8

Long-term Politics Globalization Uncertainty 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?

Short-term 10

Short-term Long-term Open-book Consultative 10