Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. Indeed, as part of an effort to learn from Germany about effective innovation, U.S.

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

This helps to explain why Greece has one of the lowest license and patent revenues from abroad as a percentage of its GDP, as well as one of the lowest contributions from high-tech product exports to its trade balance. We Greeks must learn to accept and tolerate more risk and uncertainty about the future. And it all starts in school.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

On the other end of the growth spectrum, analysis of a dataset from 350 micro finance institutions across 70 countries indicated lending to more women was associated with lower write-offs and lower portfolio-at-risk. For instance, recent Dow Jones research on venture-backed companies in the U.S.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. For several decades after World War II, economists used statistical techniques to build increasingly complex models to forecast key macroeconomic variables, notably, GDP growth, inflation and unemployment.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

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 13, 2014

She went onto a journalism career at the Financial Times, Globe and Mail, and Reuters, and wrote books on Russia’s transition to capitalism and the rise of the global plutocracy. And some important reforms of state finances haven’t happened. But what they failed to do was build an effective rule of law and government institutions.

Politics 8

Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It’s true of GDP. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12