Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Economists aren't exactly renowned for having a moral compass , yet without one, it's impossible to take on the fundamentally ethical challenge of rebooting prosperity. 21st century intelligence is not just analytical — it's ethical, emotional, and creative. You need a whole brain to be a human. It's about the left-brained stuff.

Ethics 18

Ethics Globalization Groupthink Incentives 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services. Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently.

Long-term 14

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Countries on the low-end of the GDP scale should take a Moneyball approach to Olympic glory: focus on under-valued sports where they can compete. Tchaikovsky on Worth Ethic Vs. Inspiration (Brain Pickings). BONUS BITS: Don't Throw Up the Sponge.

Sports 10

Sports Peer Review GDP Cooper 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Meaning that you can never get truly scientific answers out of GDP or unemployment numbers. I tend to think it doesn't apply for macroeconomics in general. As economist Paul Samuelson is said to have said , "We have but one sample of history."

Crisis 15

Crisis Tversky Levitt Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. So what are we to do? Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend.

GDP 8

GDP Education Porter Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

It was the largest sovereign debt default in world history, and GDP fell by some 30% coupled with a 300% currency devaluation. More important, he would never, ever, hire anyone who was not dying to work in a highly professional, ethical, collaborative firm. But we all know what happened in 2001.

Emotional Intelligence 14

Emotional Intelligence GDP Consultative McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

This we call ethics. from 2% of GDP to just 3%, that would amount to an additional $150 billion in annual giving. This sends the top talent coming out of the nation's best business schools directly into the for-profit sector and gives our youth the mutually exclusive choice between making a difference and making money.

Learning Curve 13

Learning Curve Advertising GDP Pharmaceuticals 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

To the long, dismal list of fatally broken institutions — GDP, governments, schools, corporations — we can add the mysterious Libor , and its conveniently comfortable calculation.

Price 18

Price Short-term Proposal System 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

They assure that the firm’s legal and ethical practices allow for overseas flexibility while maintaining corporate compliance by: Benchmarking competitive practices in country to ensure willingness to compete. ” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

Even now, information technologies make up only about 6% of GDP in advanced economies. Compare that to manufacturing, health care, and energy, which make up 17%, 10%, and 8% of global GDP, respectively, and you can see how there is vastly more potential to make an impact beyond the digital world.

Industry 15

Industry GDP Technology Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

s Human Development Index and the standard economic measure of per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress. When standards of living are perpetually threatened by technological shifts, shouldn't Technik be a factor in evaluating societal stability?

First-mover Advantage 11

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 11

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 4, 2018

non-farm GDP). Furthermore, 97 percent of low-performing CEOs scored high on work ethic. For example, if you look beyond the Fortune 500 featured so prominently in the media, there are over two million CEOs of companies with 5-plus employees in the U.S. alone (these smaller companies generate almost half of U.S.

CEO 50

CEO Books Succession Charisma 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

With the federal tax burden currently the lowest it's been in 68 years (measured by tax receipts as a share of GDP), this does seem an odd pledge to have made. Of course, a lot of newly elected Republican House members can say, with some justification, that they have a contract with the people who elected them not to raise taxes, ever.

GDP 15

GDP Politics Long-term Power 15