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. Position : A burst of productivity has already begun but is not captured in official data because companies are still learning how intelligent technologies can change how they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Effective internal systems, processes, and value chains will always be essential, but enterprises will increasingly need to harness the skills, capabilities, and passions of the external market. The digital economy is making significant contributions to global gross domestic product (GDP), outpacing global growth by 400 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Aggregate data with system-wide interoperability to enable transparency and knowledge sharing. Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have. That was down from 9.7%

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. Why can the U.S. In 2011, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon.

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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. So we started digging. We pored over the surveys and documentation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Instead of directing the money to specific causes, Buffett could have revolutionized the system, or the context within which the causes he cares about have to operate. Warren Buffett could have built something — a new system for dramatically expanding charity in America. No charity would be able to game the system.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

s 21 million ) in its four-year tertiary education system. 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. The value created by Facebook and a few other tech IPOs exceeds the GDP of most African regions.

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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. Companies that follow the Toyota Production System use Kaizen events to improve productivity on the manufacturing line. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 companies in the study generally view digital technologies as a way to streamline existing operations and improve customer relationships — not as an engine for growth. After more than five years of sluggish growth, U.S. to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S. Indeed, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. Cuba desperately needs to do away with its dual currency system. Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. Currency confusion.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

economy operates at only 18% of its digital potential, and the sort of productivity gains that digital technologies should be enabling are not showing up in the broader economy. To be clear, the new digital divide isn’t about a reluctance to invest in equipment and systems; most sectors and companies now spend heavily on IT.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

In particular, the tremendous growth of Bangladesh’s ready-made-garment sector (RMG) – from 50 factories in the 1980s to close to 5,000 today, making up 13% of the country’s GDP – hasn’t translated to marked improvements in social protections and standards of living. To date, there has been minimal progress in this area.

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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. Large, profitable firms invest heavily in lobbying to protect their advantage, skewing the political system. Several pieces of data support our superstar theory.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Some past studies on climate economics, like the famous Stern Report a decade ago, assessed the macro-level risk to GDP as a whole. Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies. Where are your financial assets invested and in what classes?

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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? The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid. UK Uncut is self-organizing demonstrations against mobile operators and banks.

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Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. In a separate paper , my coauthor and I find that community banks in developing and emerging economies reduce lending after disasters because systemic loan defaults deplete bank capital. In the U.S.,

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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. You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose.

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Banking Crisis Merton Decentralization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Since two-thirds of world’s growth in GDP is likely come from poor countries, reverse innovation is an important phenomenon. General Electric engineered an $800 portable, battery-operated, easy-to-use electro-cardiogram (ECG) machine for rural India at a time when they were selling very powerful $10,000 ECG machines in the U.S.

Education 8

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Farmers must also grow more on the land they currently operate through what is called “sustainable intensification.” ” This means using precision farming tools, such as GPS fertilizer dispersion, advanced irrigation systems, and environmentally optimized crop rotations.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

By comparison, China's FDI stock equals 8% of its GDP; more than 70% of that FDI consists of wholly foreign-owned enterprises (as opposed to joint ventures); and foreign firms produce half of China's exports and more than 90% of China's high-tech exports. Of course, this system has turned China into a manufacturing juggernaut.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. 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. financial system , this pressure will not ease in the near term.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 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. GDP while undertaking 40.9% shares of the global operations of U.S.-based In 2009, they accounted for 24.4%

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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

AUGUST 23, 2013

The financial industry accounts for about 8% of GDP, but about 32% of corporate profits. It should be drawn as a question of growth strategy and economic policy, ensuring that Western companies retain their license to operate in the future global economy. Both valid points, but both miss the crucial issue.

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How To GDP Finance Policies 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. One ray of hope is that some changes in the justice system may take place, and tax and duty evasion might be contained. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. This frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics. Take M-KOPA, a home solar system that comes in a kit containing a small solar panel, two LED lamps, an LED flashlight, and a mobile phone charger.

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Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

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. A study found that 18% of school age girls in Rwanda, for instance, miss school because menstrual pads are too expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

A systemic shock cutting across industries and borders, Brexit poses significant strategic challenges for business leaders as they navigate the fallout. Here, too, the directional impact has been analyzed credibly, with estimates ranging from 3%–9% of GDP loss. The Leave campaign’s victory, with a margin of 3.8

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Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

” And with the electoral system relying more on corporate donations, it’s become easier for big companies and their industry associations to win support for beneficial regulations and subsidies – so much that “corporate welfare” has become a rallying cry of the Tea Party.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. While all of these countries have their own idiosyncratic challenges, all have an overwhelming reliance on cash and a very low penetration of alternative payment systems.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

trillion to the GDP, or about one-fifth of the nation's total gross domestic product. Reform the corporate tax system: Simplifying the tax code by eliminating special tax deductions and credits in return for lower rates will allow retailers to grow and create jobs. Retail contributes $2.5

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Retail Policies Supply Chain Health Care 11

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). Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A digital idealist might argue that the demonetization move is a welcome shock necessary to get a cash-intensive society weaned off its addiction and onto modern systems of digital payments. billion annually in currency operations costs. But there is a question that hasn’t been asked: Is there a digital upside to this crisis?

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

But you know and I know: mere winners are not true leaders — not just because gaming broken systems is nothing but an empty charade of living; but because life is not a game. Believe in operation and calculation. Given a set of numbers they must "hit," they beaver away trying to hit them. It''s architecture, not mere archery.

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Incentives Metrics Follow-up GDP 14