Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Going back to the low-GDP growth, low-job growth path we were on in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis will mean stagnation—and continued rising discontent about incomes that don’t advance and income inequalities that continue to grow. Other options are also less than desirable.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. Chief among these are access to capital, access to markets, and access to networks and skills development. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

GDP 13

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. So what are we to do?

GDP 8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. In 2010, just under 11% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing, and manufacturing contributed 13% of GDP. There is nothing a German can do that a properly trained and incentivized American cannot. In the U.S.,

Innovation 14

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

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. A factory worker, for example, can be trained to run robots. The Utopians. The Optimistic Realists.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. was recording its GDP in hundreds of millions of dollars — not billions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% MGI has identified sufficient opportunities to boost productivity growth to 4% in the 19 national economies of the G20 group plus Nigeria, which together account for 80% of world GDP. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1%

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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 STEM skills are marketable and will lead to sustained employment. But here's the rub, Hurst says. WHAT IT DON'T GET, I CAN'T USE. AFTER ROBOT-DRIVEN CARS, WHATS LEFT?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

multinationals, it now invests far more heavily in the growth markets of the BRICS. Chinese policymakers know that for 50 years the United States has invested around 3% of GDP in R&D. They can develop their large domestic market, to some extent independent of the travails of the global economy.

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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. It will incorporate some evolving training paradigms like MOOCs and online programs.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 8

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Automation anxiety is made more acute by a labor market that has tilted against workers over the last 30 years, with increasing income inequality and stagnant real wages. Wage growth has not kept up with productivity growth; labor’s share of GDP has fallen and capital’s share has risen. in 2005 to 15.8% The Economy in 2018.

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Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

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.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. But, as participants in these programs regularly articulate, they are insufficient without access to capital and markets. Just as critical are role models and mentors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Equally important are bold reforms in workforce education and training systems. Despite the recent slack in the job market, signs still point to a stubborn STEM skills gap. Together, these industries have an outsized impact on the U.S. They employ 12.3

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. Economists and big data.

Strategy 10

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

That’s one reason why Turkey’s GDP grew by 2.9% My research and the work of others suggest that targeted training programs, tax incentives, and steps to ease credit constraints could offset, at least partially, the financial cost of accommodating Syrian refugees, not to mention future social costs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. China can’t build enough new hospitals and train sufficient doctors to take care of its rapidly aging population. Meanwhile, even middle-class Americans are being priced out of the housing market in states like California, where average low-tier property prices went up by 10% in 2015.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Minimal professional training? In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

It is not obvious that this always creates problems, especially since much of the outsourced research is intended to adapt products or new ideas to local markets. Second, R&D expenditures are growing faster than GDP, especially in manufacturing. What more does recent NSF data tell us about outsourcing? About 15.7%

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Chief Technology Officer Engineering GDP 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

Industry 8

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

But marketers bear a certain responsibility too. so I’m not totally surprised to hear that McCann Australia is rolling up awards all over the world for a public service campaign it did for Melbourne’s Metro Trains entitled "Dumb Ways to Die." "Cutely Morbid" How “Dumb Ways to Die” Won the Internet, Became the No.

Brand 8

Brand Education GDP Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. 5% of GDP over six years. Unfortunately, these trends still have little to no impact on the lives of a critical and chronically marginalized subset of the extreme poor around the world, those living on less than 60 to 70 cents per day.

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Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It has emerged as the world’s largest economy, although it’s still lagging well behind in world-class per capita GDP. Economics Education Emerging markets Asia' China’s economic miracle over the past 35 years is well documented.

Globalization 8

Globalization Short-term Education Real Estate 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. For much of the 20th century, success depended on a company’s ability to hire, train, and retain ever-larger numbers of employees.

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Long-term Short-term Reputation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

And somebody reminded me that the space program was half a percent of GDP. There are two ways to grow the workforce: 1) by training students at home, and 2) by importing talent from abroad. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but in today’s dollars that would be $80 billion that we would be spending annually … on AI.”

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

One day, in the far-flung future, our so-called not-really-leaders-in-anything-but-name might get their act together and begin to patch up this clapped out, wheezing train wreck of a so-called economy. So that there's not a sharp, painful trade off between meaning and money; so that bankers don't earn hundreds of times what teachers do.

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. A startup may recognize a core customer segment in an urban center prone to sea level rise (lower Manhattan, South Beach, or Ho Chi Minh City) and deliberately choose vulnerability to rising sea levels as a means to serve these markets. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

How do you think about that mission, given the fact that wages and jobs seem to be struggling to keep pace with profits and GDP? So, we have a bit of a training mismatch going on. Also,] trade agreements – [it’s] extremely important that we expand the market opportunity for American-made goods and services.

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Training Long-term GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Work from the fashion industry had helped cut poverty in the country by a third and now accounted for a third of its GDP. In her five years as CEO, she’d successfully managed stock market crashes, layoffs, a recession, strikes, downsizing — but nothing had prepared her for this. “I took the train down,” he said.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Case Study Merchandising Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

One day, in the far-flung future, our so-called not-really-leaders-in-anything-but-name might get their act together and begin to patch up this clapped out, wheezing train wreck of a so-called economy. So that there's not a sharp, painful trade off between meaning and money; so that bankers don't earn hundreds of times what teachers do.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Thus, attempts to estimate what Brexit will cost the UK in GDP terms don’t go far enough. Thus, attempts to estimate what Brexit will cost the UK in GDP terms don’t go far enough.

GDP 10

GDP Globalization Long-term Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As cloud technology improves, however, it is becoming easier for companies to create products and services within the cloud, or model new products or marketing campaigns as cloud-based software prototypes. Pearson uses Kubernetes to develop, deploy and manage new kinds of online learning systems in developing markets like India and Mexico.

Management 10

Management Software BPM Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that without major change, it will account for more than 20% of GDP by 2021, up from 5.2% Military Leadership Lessons for Training Doctors. American health care is on an unsustainable path. Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. percent in 1960. Health Operations'

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 8