HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UN Women website states that by increasing female employment in OECD countries to match the levels presented by Sweden, GDP could be boosted by over $6 trillion. It is undeniable that the challenges working women face are considerable but the workforce remains determined to participate to the best of their abilities.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Other obstacles include bank lending rules, the trustworthiness of a firm’s management, and biases against certain industries or company types. It analyzed spending on physical assets like machinery and buildings, as well as on research and development and patenting activity, to gauge innovation levels. faster each year.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. It’s common to hear someone say about the U.S., “We We have the best health care system in the world.” Based on what facts? According to World Health Organization stats, the U.S. doesn’t even make the top 10 countries for healthy life expectancy.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This narrative was further explored in a recent study that also set to take into account things like energy prices alongside the quality of management. of global GDP. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the analysis found that subsidies matter, but that better managed companies appear to respond to the external environment more intensely.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. The Covid pandemic has undoubtedly been one of the most disruptive periods in most organizations’ history. Organizational agility.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 25, 2020

The report suggests that if rates were broadly equal, then global GDP would grow by up to 6%, which would boost the global economy by an incredible $5 trillion. It’s a discrepancy that has been tackled head on by Invest NI, a regional development agency in the country.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 16, 2021

The researchers developed a dynamic spatial model that includes factors that contribute to higher wages (labor market agglomeration), higher rents, the costs associated with moving, and other locational preferences. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4%

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that AI will have a bigger impact on the development of human life. PWC believes global GDP will rise by 14% by 2030 due to AI. AI will soon be used as a marketing tool and will be developed for a more personalised email marketing campaign, changing the landscape of marketing.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 3, 2022

million Central Americans who have tried to move in the last five years around $10 billion, which equates to around 10% of the annual GDP of Honduras. Of those who had attempted migrate, around 57% had managed to do so successfully, with 33% returning home. Various routes. Paths forward.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

Ad sales in Ukraine would eventually fall by a catastrophic 85%, while overall GDP would be down 14%. In many ways, our business never really recovered, but the lessons I learned while managing through it will last a lifetime. Those illusions were soon shattered. Build Trust Through Candor And Transparency. Prepare For The Next Crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

In case you skimmed too fast to get the point, here it is: that favored benchmark of national performance, GDP growth or GDP per capita, is a distortion of reality that guides us to decisions contrary to what people really want. What is seldom mentioned is that our economic statistics contain plenty of subjectivity.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Gender inequality, as we can see, is a reality and not only in the developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Women are the primary caregivers for children, the elderly, and the sick, and this burden hampers their economic development. Booz estimates, for example, that if female employment rates were to match male rates in the United States, overall GDP would rise by 5%. In Japan, such initiatives could increase GDP by 9%.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Earlier this week, Nigeria ascended to the position of Africa’s largest economy following a recalculation of its GDP by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

America doubled down on a strategy of suburbs, automobiles, housing, and the debt-fueled trappings of a consumer economy, which worked like gangbusters, boosting GDP for the nation, creating millions of jobs, and swelling corporate profits left and right. style corporate management seems to be leading in an unproductive direction.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

These days, many people agree that, just as the full measure of a man can't be taken by his banker, the full measure of a nation isn't reflected in its GDP. Obviously, this is relevant to managers because they are often the drivers of entrepreneurial activity as well as the inspiration to the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring. Understanding the most important management innovations of the past will inform how we continue to expand and build on our knowledge to improve the innovation process in the future and advance human progress.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Now think about how companies approach their community development and CSR programs. In some parts of the world government mismanagement of community development (deliberate or otherwise) has led to civil strife, sometimes resulting in armed conflict, creating a security scenario where business simply cannot continue to operate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. states could add more than 10%, and the nation’s 50 largest cities could add between 6% and 13% of GDP. trillion GDP opportunity would require the creation of 6.4 trillion in value per year, and it isn’t included in GDP.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Especially in the world's most fragile states, economic development is critical to stability. Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

These “superstar” sectors include financial services such as banking, insurance, and asset management, professional services, internet and software, real estate, and pharmaceuticals and medical products. Using our metric of GDP and personal income per capita, we identify 50 top superstar cities.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. That is the reactive approach to economic development. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. They are playing development to win. General Electric is a good example.

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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

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The Chinese government's latest five-year plan emphasizes the need for long-term investment in research and development, to shift China from being "factory to the world" to being an innovation-driven, knowledge and service economy. Chinese policymakers know that for 50 years the United States has invested around 3% of GDP in R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In this spirit let me introduce you to just such a report: Networks for Prosperity: Achieving Development Goals through Knowledge Sharing ( here is a pdf ), just published by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Leuvan Centre for Global Governance Studies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

He's a leading authority on the politics and economics of the oil industry in Latin America and developing countries. And it has the potential to be a powerhouse in oil production, but only if things are well managed. The resource curse mostly is the way you manage your oil wealth. On that, Venezuela has a dismal record.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? 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. Lack of childcare?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. as befits an already very developed, very rich economy. based companies at the forefront of most interesting digital developments. births per woman in 1980 to 1.8

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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.” Nearly every developed nation with less inequality than our own has a strong labor movement. Compensation Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. Innovation atrophy. That's the Enronian economy in a microcosm. Deep debts.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Indicators like gross national income (GNI) and GDP go up. And on an individual level, recruiters and HR managers around the world report that job seekers with exceptional English compared to their country’s level earned 30-50% percent higher salaries. Low and very low proficiency countries display variable levels of development.

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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. A race between firms.

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