The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Compared to other countries, the UK spends relatively little of its GDP on active labor market programs, including public employment services. In short, the research indicates that a different approach is necessary, one that matches job seekers with positions that more closely meet their needs and align with local demands.

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Policies GDP Proposal Budgeting 59

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As with a second Japanese study , when sentiment was more positive towards immigrants, it was generally towards highly skilled ones, who are deemed as filling gaps in domestic supply. Research from Sweden’s Linnaeus University helps to explain this, as it highlights a growing negative sentiment towards immigration.

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Skills GDP Analysis System 110

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Earlier this week, Nigeria ascended to the position of Africa’s largest economy following a recalculation of its GDP by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%.

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GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

For instance, the ratio of patents to GDP has been in decline in the United States for years, while the cost for each patent is on the rise. It’s no surprise that the percentage of startups that are profitable when they list on the stock market is at its lowest point since the dotcom bubble of the 1990s. A decline in disruption.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. That’s roughly, and remarkably, half of Germany’s GDP, amounting to about 9% of world exports that year. .” The number of unemployed has been halved over the past decade. With just 2.6

Marketing 13

Marketing Decentralization Policies GDP 13

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 28, 2019

It is the study of employment, the forces of productivity and the factors impacting gross domestic product (GDP). Microeconomics – More of a focused spotlight , this is the study of market-specific dynamics and prices. What’s selling? What isn’t? The relationship between the two can get a bit messy (i.e.,

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Motivation GDP Influence Learning-by-Doing 40

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 16, 2011

CEOs know that until consumer demand picks up, the economy won't lift-off and they won't be able to positively affect a lowering of the rate of unemployment. percentage points from GDP, based on the average of 2010's first three quarters. Not too long ago, housing was the workhorse of the U.S. In 2005, housing accounted for 6.1

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Real Estate GDP Uncertainty Crisis 95

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Corporate executives with risk exposure in China would do well to follow the Chinese stock market very carefully as it is one of the best leading indicators of business conditions over the next one to four quarters. And right now, the Chinese stock market continues to flash multiple warning signs of a sharp economic slowdown.

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Marketing GDP Price Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Latin America is a modern marketer’s dream, and not just because of its size. The region will soon represent 10% of the global population and 9% of global GDP, with 640 million customers. It also has the fourth-largest mobile market in the world, with social media adoption even surpassing that of the United States.

Marketing 8

Marketing Trends Software Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors. The modeling and simulation relies on two important features.

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GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. It predicts that an innovative state like Massachusetts, which from 1900 to 2000 had four times as many patents as a less innovative state, like Wyoming, would become 30% richer in terms of GDP per capita by 2000.

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Innovation GDP Education Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

The economy is growing steadily, the unemployment rate is below 5%, and on GDP per capita America still is one of the richest countries in the world. The answer, according to the recently released Social Progress Index , is that the United States is not turning those positive economic numbers into basic improvements in the lives of citizens.

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GDP Health Care Education Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

The votes are in and the immediate reactions to Brexit have not been positive. Global stock markets promptly floundered. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned. And its exports account for just one-third of its (nominal) GDP.

GDP 8

GDP Long-term Merchandising Benchmarking 8

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

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. There was also a slowdown in TFP after the mid 1990s. percentage points of the 7.3%

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GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 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 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

And market participants were initially thrilled. Yields are now beginning to climb for Irish, Spanish, and Italian debt as the markets realize three important details of what was agreed. The Irish government, with a GDP in 2011 of close to 160 billion euros, has committed at least 64 billion euros to its banks.

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GDP Banking Bond Real Estate 14

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

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. Doing so, however, produces insights on vital questions the answers to which are not yet (and may never be) reflected in GDP. Take, for example, citizens' perceptions of job markets.

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Social Capital GDP Human Capital Education 17

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

JUNE 27, 2012

GDP growth in emerging markets is slowing. Sounds a bit like a variation on the "local positivity bias" Slate's Matthew Yglesias wrote about recently. Emerging market multinationals have fully come into their own, says a trio of academics from the US, France, and Turkey, and their advantages are formidable.

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GDP McKinsey Wilde Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

trillion in private sector GDP. Leaders in this position need to shift from working in their company to working on their company. Replace counterfeit “strategies” with real market identity. Many smaller companies are fortunate to find a market niche for a service or product that grows rapidly.

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Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 5, 2020

One of the defining features of the coronavirus pandemic has been the incredible impact its had on the world’s stock markets. Much of this slump has been driven by fears that the resulting economic downturn could last for years, with many economists predicting a fall in GDP of at least 10%. Non-stop news. Negative framing.

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GDP Analysis Crisis Marketing 78

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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that's 40% of China's entire GDP). Many of these businesses are led by women who would probably not have been considered for the top leadership position by their previous employers. Hoping for improved leadership is just wishful thinking.

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Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Deepening the science behind the business, focusing on discovering higher-value market segments through new products and in new industries, and looking to expand globally will all keep the top line growing. Investment in fundamental science, the R, has dropped from more than 2% of U.S. Related Video.

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Innovation Market Segmentation GDP Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

After all, businesses sit in markets, which means they do well or poorly only compared to others in the market, as well as the market in general. As the CEO of a credit business, I’m in a unique position to take a look at how the US actually stacks up. Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.

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Credit Rating GDP Budgeting Short-term 8

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 4, 2011

The belief that the economy drives the stock market is common knowledge; it's Investing 101; the idea gets pounded into investors' heads, over and over again, by various pundits, daily. But please allow us to suggest this: Belief that the GDP and other economic measures drive stock market trends is completely and utterly false.

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GDP eBook Short-term Marketing 99

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. This finding was consistent and robust across industries, headquarters locations, international expansion markets, and company size.

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Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 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

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Putting women in positions of responsibility is not as difficult as you might imagine in Zambia, despite the fact that so many are tied to the household. Zambia's government, too, is finding that women are a lever to growth, prosperity, market penetration, reputation and sustainability. Consider the payoff.

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Market Penetration Wireless GDP Education 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Firms with a cost or quality advantage have always enjoyed higher market shares. In the “good old days,” more-productive companies would take a bigger slice of the market, but there would be plenty left over for their rivals. Several pieces of data support our superstar theory.

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GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

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

APRIL 4, 2011

It will link members of the African diaspora to opportunities in their native continent and position them to contribute to economic progress in the U.S. With about a billion potential customers, the continent is well positioned to offer growth opportunities for U.S. AIDA is coming at the right time. Also, the Act will help create U.S.

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AIDA AIDAS GDP Education 12