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

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s extremely costly in terms of GDP as well as human lives, and the current approaches to homelessness reduction are not working. What’s surprising to me was how large this bias was,” the authors conclude. “Homelessness is such a big problem in North America right now. ”

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GDP Politics Construction Influence 122

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 20

Budgeting Marketing GDP Finance 20

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 119

Banking GDP Long-term Construction 119

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

To achieve growth, economies the world over rely on small businesses to create jobs, increase competition and spur innovation. 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

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. Innovation in Cities. 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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

economy depends on technological progress, but recent data suggests that innovation is getting harder and the pace of growth is slowing down. A major challenge in business and policy spheres is to understand the environments that are most conducive to innovation. was so innovative. The innovation sector was highly competitive.

Innovation 12

Innovation GDP Education Technology 12

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

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. or China should get the gold medal.

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

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. despite hiring some noted academics to mortarboard-wash our conclusions with statistics and citations.

GDP 15

GDP Learning-by-Doing Benchmarking Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. The data in the graph above demonstrate the link between innovation, bureaucracy, and uncertainty. But Greece cannot stop there. National competitiveness Economics & Society Europe'

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2000 to 2.0%

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

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

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.

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. The two different types of research are complementary.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

those who have the talent and drive to be inventive and enterprising) were happy at work, or at least felt that their ideas are being valued, they would contribute to innovation and growth in their employers' organization, rather than setting up their own company. Indeed, if entrepreneurial employees (i.e.,

Leadership 17

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

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

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. The opportunities to innovate will differ greatly by segment. Yelp, Zillow, and Trip Advisor are examples of innovations in this context.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

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

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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. was recording its GDP in hundreds of millions of dollars — not billions. And while most nations are inventive, few innovate.

GDP 12

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 12

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 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. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

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

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

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. They are acutely attuned to disruptive innovation, and their size makes them nimble.

Hedge 15

Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

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

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

By comparison, China's FDI stock equals 8% of its GDP; more than 70% of that FDI consists of wholly foreign-owned enterprises (as opposed to joint ventures); and foreign firms produce half of China's exports and more than 90% of China's high-tech exports. China is obviously an important economic player.

Comparison 15

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance. GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Donors are strongly urged to seek out the organizations with the best, most innovative programs and fund those programs. It lumps fundraising in with finance, human resources, leadership training, technology, and other administrative functions. at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged. How could it?

GDP 15

GDP Human Resources Finance Technology 15

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. For several decades after World War II, economists used statistical techniques to build increasingly complex models to forecast key macroeconomic variables, notably, GDP growth, inflation and unemployment.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

100 million: Launch a venture fundraising movement to fund the most innovative fundraising ideas, fundraising entrepreneurs, and fundraising professionals. has remained constant at 2% of GDP ever since we've been measuring it. 50 million: Fund a campaign to train the media on the same issues. Charitable giving in the U.S.

Advertising 15

Advertising GDP System Public Relations 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

Management 13

Management Software BPM Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Innovation and change.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. From less than 10% of world exports, they account for nearly 20%.

Globalization 13

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 13