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MAY 26, 2020

The paper highlights how Seoul, with its 10 million or so inhabitants, managed to have less than a thousand confirmed cases and just three deaths, despite being one of the most densely populated cities in the world. hit to GDP, with 4,000 more deaths. ” Containing the spread. ” .

GDP 132

GDP Comparison Travel Information 132

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 3, 2022

The report also highlights the considerable personal costs people bare when they move abroad. One of the main reasons for this lack of concrete planning is the cost of moving itself, with the authors suggesting that it cost the 1.8 ” Making the move. Various routes.

GDP 75

GDP Cost Report Incentives 75

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 16, 2021

Their hypothesis was that if these things vanish then our incentive for living in the city vanishes too, especially given the costs associated with big-city living, such as higher rents, pollution, and so on. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4% The bright lights.

GDP 95

GDP Quality Media Incentives 95

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

But too often CEOs find themselves stuck in what I call an innovation plateau. They fall into chronic sameness, an inertia driven by a feeling that they must focus on cost, even cheapness, to remain competitive. GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Innovation Strategy: Timing and Scope. Efficiency is not innovation.

Innovation 10

Innovation Market Segmentation GDP Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. 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. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.) counties, which account for 90% of GDP in that sector.

Industry 13

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 13

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 20, 2024

In a recent article, I explored how challenging it can be to capture the economic value of the digital economy, and that traditional metrics, such as GDP, may be under-representing the contribution digital goods, which are often free, bring to the economy. If it wasn’t available, we’d have to pay a ton more.

Software 75

Software GDP Analysis Long-term 75

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

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

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. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 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. Why do laggards not jump into AI?

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Because most managers are simply unbearable. But there is one upside to incompetent management: by failing to attend to their employees' ideas, and continuing to demoralize their staff, bad leaders accidentally stimulate entrepreneurship. Indeed, if entrepreneurial employees (i.e., Surely their former employers regret letting them go?

Leadership 17

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Lloyd Blankfein recently told a TV audience that income inequality is “very destabilizing” and that “too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.” economy were dominated by a few big firms — the companies could (and did) pass the added costs along to consumers. So imagine a partnership approach.

Management 8

Management Business Model Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. And just in time, too, because the demand for services is on the rise at the same time that the need to rein in costs is becoming ever more acute. Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare. By 2018, as many as 1.7 Internet of Things.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. That country?

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

By comparison, the United States has a higher proportion of work hours in management, architecture, and engineering jobs, which have a lower automation potential since they require application of specific expertise such as high-value engineering, which computers and robots currently are not able to do. billion to 2.2

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The cause of its demise, ultimately: overstating benefits and understating costs. Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. Innovation atrophy. So here's a question.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% MGI has identified sufficient opportunities to boost productivity growth to 4% in the 19 national economies of the G20 group plus Nigeria, which together account for 80% of world GDP. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1%

Globalization 8

Globalization Products Productivity GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage.

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Department of Transportation estimates that 15% of the country''s roads are in an unacceptable condition and says that road congestion costs the U.S. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. an estimated $100 billion per year. We need to streamline delivery.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. manufacturers do source from domestic suppliers, they tend to regard them purely as a cost center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 Sounds good; “New investment in innovative technologies” makes a great headline for the next earnings call or annual report. But these investments are not the avenues to the robust growth that innovative technology offers. After more than five years of sluggish growth, U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

While IBM can do that, I will prefer readily available local talents for cost and locally supported organic succession. 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. Most want to be global without a local creed.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

But as good managers have discovered in so many realms of human need, pure philanthropy is not the only means for addressing social challenges. higher GDP per capita than countries with average literacy scores. It is over $100 billion (that’s over 5% of Indian GDP) each year. But there is progress being made.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective. The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. Brazil’s Beef Industry. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Data from the U.S. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

Though he rakes it in, he flat-out refuses to contribute much, if anything, towards basic household costs--and when the family sets up rules to make him, he quickly finds loopholes. In fact, last year, instead of contributing to the household purse , he managed to find a way get a net contribution from it. Then there's Grandma Jones.

GDP 15

GDP Short-term Finance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

No sooner had Beijing's flame died than the global financial crisis took British debt levels above 60% of GDP, excluding public intervention in failing banks. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." Selling the Games promised to be just as difficult.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But as start-ups mature, the grow-at-all-cost narrative will be replaced by a flight to capital efficiency and profitability. That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion. A great web developer with at least five years’ experience can cost less than $25,000 a year.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.'

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. They’re tenacious, cost-cutting, and task-focused leaders who believe they need to trim back every ounce of fat and make people work harder.

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Economic growth of just under 5% a year would see consumer spending rise by 60% over the course of the next decade, even if consumption’s share of GDP doesn’t budge. A decade ago, there was no market at all for low-cost electric bikes. Innovative business models may be required. Take consumer credit.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 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. Managing Emotion Effectively Keeps Business On Track. I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.".

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. All businesses seek to control costs; they don’t need an economist to tell them why it’s important or how to do it. Economics and logistics. Economists and big data.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12