Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal. GDP by 2020. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. However, not all investments are equal.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You cannot pick up a business newspaper magazine these days without reading some article about Europe’s economic crisis; there seems to be an almost universal consensus that Europe is sick, that its institutional frameworks and governments are unfriendly to business, and that its prospects for getting better are dim.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Deloitte attributes this fall in part to rising competitive intensity, as a result of new technologies and lower entry barriers. And even if some firms have been stuck at the top of supposedly dynamic industries (Microsoft, Apple) for a rather long time, others have used innovation to rise rapidly (Facebook, Twitter).

ROIC 8

ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 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. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

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. 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

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. The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

For example, the gains that IT contributed to the GDP of the Netherlands in 2014 were wiped out by the even larger cost of cybercrime. That’s bigger than the GDP of 75 countries combined. We might not see innovations and changes that affect all of us, and we not might be as good at communicating new general threats more publicly.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

While a certain amount of exploration is healthy, most innovation is of the small-scale, one improvement at a time, variety — even with data. Some data is inherently inaccurate (GDP forecasts); other data becomes inaccurate through processing errors. IT management Information & technology Managing people'

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Uncertainty Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This time around (looking at 2010 data), the emerging markets account for over 23% of global GDP as opposed to 11% in 1975 (at current, not purchasing power parity, prices, which give them an even greater share). In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 13

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The tenth anniversary of 9/11 amidst the ongoing employment crisis has opened a wide conversation about what ails America and what should be done about it. A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. as global hegemon.

Innovation 14

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

This crisis has been lurching on — and on — for half a decade now. More of the same — a perma-crisis whose human toll on you and I seems to be a kind of crisis-malaise, a habituation to human heartache, the dulling of the once-razor-sharp edge of what could have been? So what happens now? What happens next?

How To 12

How To Sharpe Crisis Class 12

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. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

In addition to the ones regularly in the news, I have argued earlier in HBR that there is a fundamental crisis unfolding over the longer term: the continent is suffering from a “digital recession” – a loss of momentum in its evolution toward a digital economy. Innovation Hubs Will Fragment. billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

You may have heard that Europe is in a state of crisis. The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. and China take the lead in tech innovation. Investing in innovation capacity. of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S. in Sub-Saharan Africa and 27.7%

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies GDP 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As governments attempt to recover from the Covid crisis, there has been an understandable desire to invest in infrastructure to place nations on a sound footing for the future. As the high technology sector (e.g., As the high technology sector (e.g., Long-term investment. New knowledge.

GDP 136

GDP Budgeting Policies Technology 136

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

Fixed Costs 15

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

Fixed Costs 8

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

It was the biggest drop for the currency since an economic crisis in 1994. To cope with the cyclical variations of copper prices, the industry made an innovative leap into the health care sector, a move that represents a clear departure from the commodity trap. They supported world-class research and innovation locally.

Cooper 14

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 14