HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Working Mothers’ Challenges Are Labor Market Concerns While many see it as better to exclude the working women labor force rather than make changes to the system to accommodate them, it is imperative to take the challenges of working mothers seriously.

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GDP McKinsey Participative Report 98

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040.

Marketing 40

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

No surprise, then, that it poses serious challenges for the health care systems, pension schemes, and public debt management of modern societies. And growth reduces the government’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which facilitates and cheapens future government borrowing. The active labor force declines over time, and so does GDP.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Health Care Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring. Understanding the most important management innovations of the past will inform how we continue to expand and build on our knowledge to improve the innovation process in the future and advance human progress.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Lloyd Blankfein recently told a TV audience that income inequality is “very destabilizing” and that “too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.” Begin with an obvious but often overlooked truth: labor and management don’t have diametrically opposed goals. Rising inequality reflects two trends.

Management 8

Management Business Model Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 McKinsey and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have estimated that in 50 metropolitan areas worldwide, a rapid transition to advanced mobility systems could yield $600 billion in societal benefits through 2030.

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

That’s roughly, and remarkably, half of Germany’s GDP, amounting to about 9% of world exports that year. So how did Germany, with the fourth-largest GDP in the world (after the United States, China, and Japan), transform itself from sick man to economic superstar? The industrial relation system in Germany is autonomous.

Marketing 12

Marketing Decentralization Policies GDP 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The plan is expected to outline policies intended to ensure that China continues to see average annual GDP growth of 7% through this decade, the growth rate required to meet Premier Li Keqiang’s stated goal of doubling GDP by 2020. The third is the tax system. Which Management Style Will China Adopt?

GDP 8

GDP Fixed Assets Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Aggregate data with system-wide interoperability to enable transparency and knowledge sharing. 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

MAY 18, 2017

Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. The barrier of entry into farming technology has dropped, as cloud computing, computing systems, connectivity, open-source software, and other digital tools have become increasingly affordable and accessible.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. From an economic perspective, its goal is much the same as India's updated GDP 2.0: But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

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 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Apple and lots of others, including President Bush's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform back in 2005, have been arguing for a switch to a territorial tax system in which we don't even try to tax the overseas earnings of U.S. It's not that the current system — the product of a political compromise in 1962 — is worth defending.

GDP 12

GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 12

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.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

US annual GDP is just over $15 trillion. trillion) over ten years is just over seven percent of one year's GDP. But the actual cut for 2013 is a tenth of that figure, less than one percent of GDP, each year, over ten years, which is far less dramatic. The media tends to downplay that these cuts would be spread over ten years.

GDP 10

GDP Politics Budgeting Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

AI systems will take on tasks at the heart of middle- and high-skill jobs, while robots will perform menial work that requires low-skill labor. Combine that with headwinds from aging populations, income inequality, and the costs of dealing with climate change, and the United States will have near-zero GDP growth. The Dystopians.

GDP 8

GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Therefore we need to see significantly greater investment in the education systems of these parts of the world – and others. But as good managers have discovered in so many realms of human need, pure philanthropy is not the only means for addressing social challenges. To be clear, this is not about privatizing state education systems.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

By 2016, four out of ten jobs will require advanced education or training, and many hiring managers are already finding that the talent they need is hard to find. "If Goldman Sachs found the association between GDP and medals was strongest, by far, in cycling, followed by judo, rowing, and swimming. AFTER ROBOT-DRIVEN CARS, WHATS LEFT?

GDP 11

GDP Sports Short-term Education 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. Just to keep pace with anticipated global GDP growth, the world needs to spend $57 trillion , or on average $3.2 The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates that investment equivalent to 7.9%

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

trillion in bribes wiped out more than 5% of global GDP. In reality, all but 86 jobs were shipped to Mexico, turning Fostoria into a ghost town, as a shrinking tax base led to a failing school system and a sea of for-sale signs. A Succession System Geared Toward Growth (The Globe and Mail). In 2010, the U.N. estimates, some $1.5

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence GDP McKinsey Film 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. Carvalho talked about increasing investment (investment’s share of GDP is lower in Brazil than any other major Latin American economy), which would surely help.

GDP 11

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

s 21 million ) in its four-year tertiary education system. 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. Even at three times the U.S.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

We counter that managers who would see their businesses survive the next few decades of extreme economic volatility will need to develop some literacy about oil and its complex relationships with the economy. We have ample historical evidence that when petroleum expenditures reach 5% of GDP, recession typically follows.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

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. And what about those anti-competitive social systems?

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 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.

Meyer 13

Meyer Leadership Metrics Apparel 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals.

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Chinese policymakers know that for 50 years the United States has invested around 3% of GDP in R&D. As Chinese state-owned enterprises upgrade their talent management and expand internationally, that is itself a competitive advantage. It will take decades before China is on a par with America in innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Long-term Politics GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

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. billion and $7.6

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

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

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

MAY 24, 2012

That Greece with a population of a mere 11 million and a GDP of $300 billion (only 2% of the Eurozone economies) can create systemic risk for the world speaks volumes about the downside of global interdependence. government and IMF to tell them that "we have a problem" he was signaling systemic risk.

Crisis 11

Crisis Banking Politics GDP 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

APRIL 24, 2014

The tragedy is that countless people died even though both workers and management knew something was wrong. Bangladesh has a markedly different socioeconomic context compared to other manufacturing centers like China, which has a relatively robust system of social benefits and protections. This needs to change.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Economic growth of just under 5% a year would see consumer spending rise by 60% over the course of the next decade, even if consumption’s share of GDP doesn’t budge. Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. Innovation atrophy. That's the Enronian economy in a microcosm. Deep debts.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15