Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. Analysts have already reduced forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter.

GDP 15

GDP Aggregate Demand Supply Chain Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Wage growth has not kept up with productivity growth; labor’s share of GDP has fallen and capital’s share has risen. 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.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We can’t expect managers to focus primarily on anything other than building a thriving, profitable enterprise. The Ford story doesn’t add up , if you assume that Ford believed that his move alone was enough to raise overall demand for cars. The top 500 firms’ revenues equate to nearly 37% of world GDP.

CEO 11

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 11