Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Whether at the level of whole economies fixating on GDP or corporations trying to nail quarterly earnings targets, managers are being influenced by the wrong metrics and making decisions that actually leave us worse off. But mega firms don't have a monopoly on leadership. As we see it, managers have three choices.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

China’s global economic power continues to grow, yet the decision-making dynamics of its top leadership remain a mystery. Three longstanding systems have to change if China is to set itself on a path towards sustainable endogenous growth. The third is the tax system. What Needs to Change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. But, in Malawi, most investors would be concerned about the fact that there's no legal system in place to protect William's ideas from his friends, who might begin to copy them. By the late 19th century, the U.S.

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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. Health systems have to meet three fundamental objectives: Improve the health of individuals and the populations they serve.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 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. Health systems are at a crossroads. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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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. Companies that follow the Toyota Production System use Kaizen events to improve productivity on the manufacturing line. And wages are stagnant.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If more of them can be identified, developed, and appointed, we believe the whole education system will improve. They are also the most frequently appointed, 82% of leaders if our sample of 411 leaders is representative of the total UK educational system. Five Types of Leader. billion and $7.6 billion and $7.6

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Although the United States maintains world leadership in many advanced industries, that leadership position is eroding. Equally important are bold reforms in workforce education and training systems. Shoring up innovation and skills systems, however, is just the start.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

It also made economic sense, allowing Greece’s GDP to grow, and thus ultimately pay the creditors, as Paul Krugman has repeatedly argued. For all the talk of reform, little has happened on the ground: this is partly a legacy of poor leadership from the previous government as well as of the Troika’s priorities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

We''re in the midst of a Great Dereliction — a historic failure of leadership, precisely when we need it most. Hence it''s difficult, looking around, to even remember what leadership is. Leadership — true leadership —is a lost art. Leadership' We need a new generation of leaders.

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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. A big thing would be continuing to complete the unification of the banking system and the capital markets, especially if the British are out now.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% Other measures suggest that the productivity of China’s innovation system is low. China accounts for 20% of the world’s population, 11% of the world’s GDP, 14% of the world’s R&D expenditure — but less than 2% of the patents granted by any of the leading patent offices outside China.

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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.

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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.” For everybody else in the system, it is an improvement. There is no cost to anybody other than the investors in hedge funds.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. Executives at Unilever credit their ranking to the company’s known leadership on sustainability.

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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. This can act as a drag on any initiative.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

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'

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The share of national GDP at risk from climate change exceeds $1.5 Record snowfall in Boston of more than 100 inches in the winter of 2015 shut down transit systems for weeks and made it difficult, if not impossible, for some employees to get to work. trillion in the 301 major cities around the world. after Hurricane Katrina.

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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. The new system I am proposing would not be that big of a stretch for providers. Hayon Thapaliya.

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Health Care Insurance Price Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

First, evidence of a radically altered climate system has become crystal clear. Then China’s President Xi said he’ll be attending the annual bigwig gathering in Davos for the first time, with reports of China’s interest in filling trade gaps left by Brexit and possible leadership gaps on climate left by Trump.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It serves nobody's purpose for our political leadership to vilify oil producers. Eighty percent of the 44,000 wells drilled in our country each year require hydraulic fracturing, using a closed system with water, sand and a small percentage of additives to fracture rock and release hydrocarbons. China recently surpassed the U.S.

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Policies Energy Transportation Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America). Finally, Cuba confronts significant difficulties caused by its dual currency system.

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