Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

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GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Embracing positive indifference. Positive indifference is important for two reasons.

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Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Most management writing focuses on startups or large companies, but if recent performance is any indicator, midcap companies are the place to be. trillion in private sector GDP. Leaders in this position need to shift from working in their company to working on their company. These things are functions of discipline, not size.

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Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Because most managers are simply unbearable. But there is one upside to incompetent management: by failing to attend to their employees' ideas, and continuing to demoralize their staff, bad leaders accidentally stimulate entrepreneurship. Indeed, if entrepreneurial employees (i.e.,

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Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Position : Man and machine will wage a Darwinian struggle that machines will win. Falling incomes will have grave consequences in places like the United States and Europe, where consumption accounts for 56% or 69% of GDP , respectively, requiring new social supports, such as a universal basic income. The Dystopians. The Utopians.

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GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

labor market is like an aging athlete; it is taking longer and longer to recover from recessions. The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates.

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Outsourcing Merchandising GDP Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Ask these same managers after a launch whether they met their performance objectives, and too many will answer “not quite” or “not at all.” ” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. laura schneider FOR HBR.

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Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Given his former position, you would imagine that Georgiou’s crime would involve falsifying national economic data in order to cover up tax shenanigans or to fool the markets into thinking that the Greek economy was healthier than it was. You would be wrong. Calculating this debt in “present” (i.e.,

GDP 8

GDP Maturity Crisis Report 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Lean is a powerful management tool, but having the “exact” number for efficiently doing the “work” of today jeopardizes the future by not having “extra” people thinking on it. Investment in fundamental science, the R, has dropped from more than 2% of U.S.

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Innovation Market Segmentation GDP Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Where there is economic growth, there is opportunity, and the companies that can predict where growth will take place are better positioned to take advantage of it. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. General Electric is a good example.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 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.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP. economy are asking whether we learned enough from the 2008 crisis about how to manage risk in the financial system. Governments were reducing spending in order to bring their debt levels under control. I am afraid the answer is no.

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Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

We look at this rating, and also investigate the extent to which people experience positive and negative affective states like enjoyment, stress, and worry in their day-to-day lives, as well as analyzing responses to more workplace-specific measures such as job satisfaction and employee engagement. GDP is masking deeper issues.

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Report Transportation Stress Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

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. There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.' Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth."

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Price changes (of currency and goods) can be observed nearly in real time, whereas fundamental macro variables such as GDP and its components become available with just a few months’ delay. Imports underpin many dimensions of consumption and investment, so impacts are not concentrated or immediately visible.

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Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 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 Tech startups play a critical role both in driving technological innovation forward and in bringing it to market. This equivalence is too cynical by half.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Outside Europe, though, opinions are distinctly less positive. While they’re somewhat comfortable with innovation, European managers are worried about their overall competitiveness, which they feel is compromised by large, expensive and rigid social systems and labor markets, that are almost impossible to reform.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Sometimes, the measures managers use to guide their decisions stop making sense. Here's the upshot of that: because TV executives are encouraged to manage to that measure, they achieve better performance on paper but worse—wait for it—in reality. It's a positive externality management has decided to measure and make known.

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Meyer Leadership Metrics Apparel 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 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. For several decades after World War II, economists used statistical techniques to build increasingly complex models to forecast key macroeconomic variables, notably, GDP growth, inflation and unemployment.

Strategy 10

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 10

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. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Data from the U.S. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

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% of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. of revenues). Brazil’s Beef Industry.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In this brave new world, public companies are losing their dominance : their share of America’s GDP, workforce, and assets has fallen by 50% over the last quarter of the 20th century. Without external markets to please, they can take a long-term perspective and make decisions on the basis of sustainable economic value.

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Long-term Short-term Reputation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

We normally associate innovation with R&D, product and service development, and new "offers" to relevant markets. The vast majority of the workforce is focused in services — a sector that generates 85% of GDP output in the U.S. You might call this "supply-side innovation." The hotels equip them with information.

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Innovation Hotels GDP Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

A second best practice is to build the case for each business unit starting from market demand and working back to internal cost, capacity and capability measures. Or it might be the difference between growing above or below population growth, GDP or the inflation rate.

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Budgeting GDP Resources Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This piece describes a couple of other examples stemming from the research, including the struggle to get men to drink diet sodas (black cans and avoidance of the word "diet" help) and how gents on Porsche message boards managed their insecurities when the car company came out with an SUV. But marketers bear a certain responsibility too.

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Brand Education GDP Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. The field attracts the most students, enjoys the attention of policy-makers and journalists, and gains notice, both positive and negative, from other scientists.".

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Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, 710,000 fewer Americans work for multinationals than a decade ago, and their position in the U.S. GDP while undertaking 40.9% Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management. economy is smaller by most measures. of all U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

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

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. public market capitalization over this period. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We calculate that U.S.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. ” Meanwhile, skeptics highlight Amazon’s lack of expertise in health care, a sector that many deem curiously resistant to the competitive forces that characterize the retail and web services markets in which Amazon has thrived. jamie jones/Getty Images.

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Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 9