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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Reid travelled around the world twice – once on his publisher’s dime and again to film a documentary for PBS – to learn about how health care is delivered in different countries. leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. I had a stark reminder of this last Friday when I went to hear journalist T.R.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. I've traveled around the world and have seen smart people everywhere. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. No nation has a monopoly on great ideas.

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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. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

In addition to lifting some travel restrictions, American financial institutions can establish accounts with their Cuban counterparts and telecommunication firms can export to and install equipment on the island. Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. This is why U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Having traveled to the Middle East repeatedly over the past two years, I decided to write a book about the remarkable and little reported on rise of a new generation of tech start-ups and entrepreneurs across the region. Changing market dynamics , growth, and opportunity in the Middle East have been in motion well before the Arab Spring.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

Political control in universities is tightening and overseas travel for scientists is being scrutinized. Beneath the gloss of high-GDP growth numbers, there is now a whiff of fear in China. Indeed, politically-connected state enterprises are reasserting themselves against the entire private sector.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you. GDP by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Priceline introduced the “conditional price offer,” an economic notion developed by the company’s founder, Jay Walker, who put his undergraduate economics training to good use to form a company that has revolutionized travel. Economists and big data.

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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. Eliminate visa delays, making it easier for more overseas travelers to visit the United States: Overseas travelers spend an average of $4,000 each time they visit the US. Retail contributes $2.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In my travels through dozens of emerging and frontier markets, I've concluded that they are highly differentiated and need to be understood one at a time, with regional trends often more significant than global ones. In doing so, they often fail to ask the right questions beyond which acronym rolls of the tongue most easily.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Whenever I travel to an African city , I marvel at the dynamism of business activity taking place on the ground. But, for example, our research found that oil and gas only made up 11% of Nigeria’s GDP in 2014, compared with 20% for construction. Myth #1: There is no competitive urgency to build a presence in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

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. Companies playing development to win have CEOs traveling to the region 2-3 times per year, supported by engagement of the full management team. General Electric is a good example.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. “As I travel across Africa, I notice two things about how we’re growing,” Adesina told me recently. Six years after the global recession began, many parts of the world are still struggling to achieve growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

On average, Americans spend twenty-eight minutes a month travelling to get cash, but that time isn’t evenly distributed. Not only is cash prevalent, its use as a percentage of GDP has been increasing by about 2% over the past two decades, possibly because of concerns about inflation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The company is now one of the largest mobile cash-transaction companies in the world — roughly 20% of the country's GDP passes through it. This is why, when I travel throughout the Middle East, I look hard for situations and experiences that could foster innovation on a global scale. The growth doesn't stop there.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. In 2016, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I recently saw the benefits of greater personal accountability in Singapore, where I traveled as an Eisenhower Fellow. Today Singapore spends only 4% of GDP on health care, versus 18% in the U.S., The former CEO of a major hospital group told me, “People think twice or three times about using services.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Airbnb is an example of a win-win quality improvement: landlords realize more cash flow from their assets, and customers gain both better choice and lower costs in their travel lodging options. Examples: Phu My Hung, Vietnam; Suzhou, China; Astana, Kazakhstan; Singapore (historically).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

And the fact that these markets are "emerging" presents more limitations, including the harsh reality of low spending power: GDP per capita in India is $3,900 and in Indonesia is $5,000 (compared to the US at $49,800). It has moved into other product categories such as travel with Ozon.travel.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

Poland on the one side and Russia on the other are both in the low twenty-thousands in GDP per capita, and Ukraine is officially at $7,298. When Yatsenyuk , the prime minister, traveled to Brussels last week, he demonstratively flew commercial. The official data is incredible.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Although she was based in Manhattan, she traveled constantly and was a frequent keynote speaker. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. Businesses run by UEs generated $6 billion in annual revenue and employed 225,000 people. Still, she hadn’t forgotten her roots.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Over recent years, governments too have increasingly begun to realize that focusing on GDP growth alone does not necessarily lead to improvements in living standards of their citizens. Put simply, what’s good for increasing GDP may not be good for the long-term betterment of society. And so what do we observe from this vantage point?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

With cloud, information travels rapidly in both directions, across computing systems that, with attributes like virtualization, scaling up or down to handle bigger workloads, or automated security patching across thousands of machines, are far more flexible. How organizations are changing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. But few governments appear to have the money or the political will to foot the up-front costs to prevent or fight fragmentation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

It covers roughly 70% of Turkey’s GDP. It generally takes a country about 13 months to recover fully from a terrorist attack, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council. Turkey can’t rely on the current price stability buffer long-term, but it is helping now.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

So is Denmark's recent quantum leap to Green GDP. Elon Musk's dangerous idea that space travel can be pioneered by enterprise. Michael Clemens' argument that a world without borders would be a radically more prosperous world? Totally radical. Occupy Wall Street's idea of radically open, decentralized decision-making.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

of GDP – The Growing Market for International Travel for Medical Care – CEOs Want Health-Care Reform (2009) – Can We Expect the Health Care System in the USA to Become Less Damaging to the Economy? We have to do better. Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9 trillion $9,255 per person and 17.4%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The share of national GDP at risk from climate change exceeds $1.5 Record flooding in Thailand in 2011 severely impacted air travel, tourism, and one of the major regional airports in Asia. trillion in the 301 major cities around the world. trillion in economic output at risk through 2025. Related Video. Account for the intangibles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Our back-of-the-envelope estimate revealed $10 billion to $20 billion in annual revenues if things are done right--that's about 10 to 15 percent of the current GDP of Israel. And it presumes free trade and travel among all nations in the region allowing all to prosper in new ways. Does that sound crazy? We don't think so.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Traveling and living abroad seems to broaden individuals’ perspectives while also improving creativity. There are also specific types of educational experiences that fit with the notion of a world where the connections between countries are too big to ignore but are greatly dampened by the borders and distances between them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America). Second, Cuba confronts the difficult task of unburdening its largely stalled state-led economy. How to know where the economy is heading.

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