The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2023

The index evaluates 166 nations based on indicators such as ICT, skills, research and development, industrial capacity, and finance. High-income economies, including the United States, Sweden, Singapore, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, dominate the index.

Technology 98

Technology Development Policies Cooper 98

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2023

The general rule of enterprise finance is that marketing budgets drop like a stone at the first sign of trouble and rise like a feather once the environment is more settled.

Budgeting 21

Budgeting Marketing GDP Finance 21

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. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. of respondents citing survival as a key challenge.

Company 127

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 127

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The research shows that when immigrants are given not only access to financial services but also citizenship, healthcare, and home ownership, it can help to generate nearly $250 billion for the US economy, which represents around 1.15% of total GDP. There is a double urgency to calculating these impacts,” the researchers say.

Banking 120

Banking GDP Long-term Construction 120

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%).

Engineering 50

Engineering Resources GDP Strategic Planning 50

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. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2012

I'm sure many of you will have read the news that the Olympics this summer have caused the UK economy to grow by 1% in the third quarter of the year, thus ending three quarters of declining GDP and, officially at least, taking us out of recession. The parallels with the finance industry are stark.

Short-term 69

Short-term Long-term Banking GDP 69

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.

GDP 15

GDP Learning-by-Doing Benchmarking Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. The vibrant, sustainable cities of the future will be funded and delivered by creative financing arrangements that encourage collaboration.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Charitable giving in US has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970. Finances handcuff non-profits. Talents, system and strategies matter. We pay a corporate executive that makes sugar water more than someone who is trying to cure the world of AIDS. The number of organizations crossing the $50 million budget. 46,000 for profits.

Henderson 46

Henderson GDP Edmondson Learning-by-Doing 46

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The superstars tend to be more involved in global flows of trade and finance, more digitally mature, and they dominate the lists of the most valued companies, the most valued brands, the most desirable places to work, and the most innovative companies. counties, which account for 90% of GDP in that sector.

Industry 13

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

During the financial crisis, the world came to the apparently shocking realization that debt financing entails risks. trillion, roughly 10% of gross domestic product (GDP). Gross public debt is $14 trillion, or over 95% of GDP. Financial institutions, households, and governments all suffered because they had too much leverage.

GDP 15

GDP Net Present Value Crisis Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Analysts have already reduced forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% Bold recovery plans would seem to be in order, but how that response is financed holds great import for Japan's economic future. for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. The financial consequences are equally alarming.

GDP 15

GDP Aggregate Demand Supply Chain Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. Why can the U.S. The difference isn't their debt and deficits. In 2011, U.S. Imports surged.

GDP 11

GDP Banking Price Crisis 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. It predicts that an innovative state like Massachusetts, which from 1900 to 2000 had four times as many patents as a less innovative state, like Wyoming, would become 30% richer in terms of GDP per capita by 2000.

Innovation 12

Innovation GDP Education Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

I couldn''t help but think back to that as controversy erupted this week over Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff''s oft-cited three-year-old finding that economic growth plummets when a country''s debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 90%. growth in countries with debt/GDP of more than 90%, they came up with 2.2%

GDP 9

GDP Bond Sample Sharpe 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

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. They advise entrepreneurs on areas including finance, marketing, customer service, and human resources. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

GDP 15

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

And we need to focus on the aspect of the situation that surprises me the most: the lack of innovative financing mechanisms to allow investors (companies, individuals, or governments) to channel much needed funds to where we all know they will reap a reward. higher GDP per capita than countries with average literacy scores.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

With Greek public debt already at more than 140% of GDP even before the bailout, it's reasonable to ask if the strategy can even work. More in danger would be small counties like Portugal and Ireland, whose public debt-to-GDP levels are between 90% and 100% and that have fairly bad unemployment levels already.

GDP 15

GDP Finance Crisis Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

current account deficit, which measures the gap between what the country takes in from export income, investment income, and cash transfers and what it pays out, peaked at nearly 6% of GDP in 2006 and was down to 3.1% of GDP in 2011. But it will be the end of the remarkably free-wheeling era in global finance and U.S.

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Finance Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

So one solution suggested by a growing number of economists in Europe is for central banks to “helicopter drop” money , and directly finance private sector spending. Quantitative easing (QE) by the Fed, Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, has involved asset purchases equivalent to more than 20% of GDP.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. Just to keep pace with anticipated global GDP growth, the world needs to spend $57 trillion , or on average $3.2 The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates that investment equivalent to 7.9%

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Georgiou’s crime was that back in 2009, he strictly applied globally accepted international rules in reporting the Greek government’s budget deficit, which had the effect of increasing it by just under 3% to a whopping 15% of GDP. Calculating this debt in “present” (i.e.,

GDP 8

GDP Maturity Crisis Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that's 40% of China's entire GDP). Entrepreneurship opens the door to women: Unlike in corporate management, there is no glass ceiling in a company you start yourself, which is why female entrepreneurs are flourishing.

Leadership 17

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

GDP shrunk this year by 5.5% Our horrendous public debt is compounding and the public debt to GDP ratio will soon hit almost 200%, a level that can force our country to default on a most of what it owes. Consumption continues to drop. Construction has decreased by 40% and small shops are closing at a rapid rate.

Crisis 15

Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. And capital continues to expand.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 McKinsey and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have estimated that in 50 metropolitan areas worldwide, a rapid transition to advanced mobility systems could yield $600 billion in societal benefits through 2030.

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Our current problems stem, in part, from the special characteristics of finance, which as Keynes noted , is highly dependent on sentiment and, as Hyman Minsky emphasized , therefore particularly susceptible to crises. Congress could wreak havoc as far away as Asia, or how problems in the Eurozone might cloud U.S. in 2010.

Globalization 13

Globalization GDP Crisis Finance 13

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. Of course, in the near term, political stability and sound economic policies are necessary to avert crisis.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

to 8% GDP growth rate already is a significant slowdown from the nearly 10% annual pace at which China''s economy had been growing until last year. China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark. to 8% growth rate.".

GDP 9

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Once the deal has been done, let's say that the ESM now owns stock in a bunch of banks with no upside assets to speak of in an economy (Spain) with 25 percent unemployment and collapsing GDP growth. The Irish government, with a GDP in 2011 of close to 160 billion euros, has committed at least 64 billion euros to its banks.

GDP 15

GDP Banking Bond Real Estate 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. The battles may be over, but the war is just beginning. billion in 2012.

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

Worse, she won't hear of taking out of her own retirement account to finance it. To be sure, nations aren't like households, because countries can raise taxes and devalue their currencies — and I'm not suggesting that a household's finance's perfectly mirror a nation's. Here's the picture-frame. Well, the answer's simple.

GDP 15

GDP Short-term Finance Crisis 15

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 14

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 14