Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Embracing positive indifference. Positive indifference is important for two reasons. The Japanese employees in the Tokyo headquarters communicated in Japanese, the Americans in the U.S.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

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.

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. Hence, a richer pool of expertise, experiences, and perspectives can create positive outcomes for the organization. But what about at the national level? percentage points.

Long-term 10

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 10

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.

GDP 8

GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

For instance, in 1880 most inventive activity was the result of inventors operating outside the boundaries of firms. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. Fathers’ incomes were positively correlated with the probability of becoming an inventor.

Innovation 12

Innovation GDP Education Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. However, there are some risks. Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend. Growing beyond Moscow and St.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

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. Companies operating in SSA cannot ignore the country, even though it will suffer substantially from the impact of low oil prices on the currency and business activity.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. Even if a business knows how normal weather affects its earnings, unexpected abnormal weather events present their own risks. Every year, weather variability is estimated to cost $630 billion for the U.S. alone, or 3.5%

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Today’s model is using African diasporas where companies hire native Africans living abroad and then send them to the continent to expand their operations. 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. Education drives technology.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 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. Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% For instance, we find that only 30% of revenues are earned by companies that operate in the resources sector. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

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.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential. A manufacturer may relocate from a coastal community because the benefits to its operations of this location are few. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society. But the money quote from Fink was this: Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose. ” It’s good news.

Letter 9

Letter Long-term Short-term Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

By 2007, Brazil had reclaimed its position as the number-one destination of foreign investment in the region from Mexico, according to CEPAL , one of the five regional commissions of the UN; Brazil also represented 30–40% of a typical multinational’s Latin America portfolio, according to our internal client polling.

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 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% The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues). Marfrig stands to gain between $1.3 million and $16.5

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. And today''s trends show that women will be a driving force of entrepreneurial growth in the future.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Superstar companies make lots of profit per employee, so as they become a bigger and bigger part of the economy, the overall share of GDP going to labor goes down. And although superstar firms may have become dominant through competitive means, they may cement their position using methods that are less benign.

GDP 8

GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. Today, 710,000 fewer Americans work for multinationals than a decade ago, and their position in the U.S. of all U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

But once we find them, we should direct giving not toward the programs but toward the organizations' fundraising and development operations so that they can multiply the funds available for programs. Those correlations are all positive. at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged. How could it?

GDP 14

GDP Human Resources Finance Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. Focusing on data such as population growth, inflation, and GDP growth is a way to anticipate market developments.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

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. The initial reactions, in particular in the press, were positive. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. Will an advertised collaboration with the OECD bear any fruits?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

OpenTable (a restaurant reservations service), Motivate (the operator of CitiBike, Bay Area Bikeshare, and others), and Luxe (a web-based valet parking service) are examples. Characteristics: These cities tend to have high population growth and high growth rates in GDP per capita, demographic and economic tailwinds that help to boost returns.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Here's 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. — and you might begin to see how economists conceive of banking shutdowns.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Decentralization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

operations. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. Miami’s median income was 10 times that of most of the cities where Unamano operated. How can we hit 25 developing countries by 2020 if we get distracted by operations in the U.S.? It didn’t have U.S. Miami certainly qualified.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 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. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

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. ” There is often a personal connection between the family and the communities in which it operates; reputations matter to families.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Reputation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. percentage points of GDP growth per year). We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. For existing health care companies, the operative words in that mandate have been “health care”; for Amazon, the operative words likely are “service that needs to be delivered to a customer.” jamie jones/Getty Images.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

It covers roughly 70% of Turkey’s GDP. Despite the large number of uncertainties and security threats, the resulting internal migration, both from people in Kurdish areas and from Syrian refugees, had a positive effect on household spending, which increased by 5% in the first quarter of 2016.

Tourism 10

Tourism Politics Uncertainty Price 10

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. The report finds that investment in technology such as robotics has a greater positive impact on the economy than almost any other form of technology.

TCO 73

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 73

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

policy in Asia has become a “pivot away from China” and this position presents several key risks. Consider that three out of the four largest economies in the world in 2030 are expected to be in Asia; by 2050 , half of the global GDP will come from Asia; three of the top six trading partners for the U.S. Still, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

The SOEs produce 33% of China’s GDP and account for 20% of its jobs; the central government controls one-third of the SOEs. Additional meetings are scheduled for August and September, but it is difficult to imagine a positive outcome if an auto trade war breaks out. The need for restrictions and transparency. Five years of U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

” Among its other ambitions, a July 2017 State Council document aims to position China as the world’s AI leader by 2025. Relative to its Chinese counterparts, India’s authorities have been focused on the fundamentals — on low-cost access to digital tools and on creating an open and inter-operable infrastructure.

Airlines 10

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

the UK, Hong Kong, and Japan — all capitalist countries, sure, but with dramatically different forms of capitalism and roles for government (government spending is well more than 50% of GDP in Finland and less than 20% in Hong Kong ). So successful economies do operate within certain bounds. Australia, and Austria.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Policies Proposal 8