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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

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.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

In our recent research at the McKinsey Global Institute, we examined the superstar phenomenon across firms, as well as sectors and cities. For cities, we analyze nearly 3,000 of the world’s largest cities by population that together account for 67% of global GDP. counties, which account for 90% of GDP in that sector.

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Technology Is Changing Transportation, and Cities Should Adapt

Harvard Business Review

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).

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. GDP while undertaking 40.9% multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. of all U.S.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Investing in innovation capacity.

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