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. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Who authors the destiny of nations?

Price 17

Price Short-term Proposal System 17

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, by contrast, is simply open. China is obviously an important economic player.

Comparison 16

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries.

Transportation 10

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. For instance, recent Dow Jones research on venture-backed companies in the U.S.

Globalization 15

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Instead of directing the money to specific causes, Buffett could have revolutionized the system, or the context within which the causes he cares about have to operate. This new movement would find the best programs and fund the fundraising operations that can multiply the money available for programs. Charitable giving in the U.S.

Advertising 15

Advertising GDP System Public Relations 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

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% shares of the global operations of U.S.-based In 2009, they accounted for 24.4%

Globalization 13

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

Banking 17

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Here's what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Tags: Economy Finance Global business.

Banking 17

Banking Crisis Merton Decentralization 17

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 16

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The cloud is also a common repository for the collection and analysis of new data, and the place where an increasing number of artificial intelligence operations, like image and speech recognition, are conducted.

Management 16

Management Software BPM Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. Earlier this year, they raised $325 million in the public markets and this month acquired BancABC , a bank with operations in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It’s neither.

Globalization 9

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

and the transfer of business risk from "too big to fail" institutions to taxpayers, leading to a "heads I win, tails you lose" relationship between the finance and the rest of the economy. The financial industry accounts for about 8% of GDP, but about 32% of corporate profits. Recent scrutiny of the U.S. Here also there are two issues.

How To 8

How To GDP Finance Policies 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. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 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

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

OpenTable (a restaurant reservations service), Motivate (the operator of CitiBike, Bay Area Bikeshare, and others), and Luxe (a web-based valet parking service) are examples. Characteristics: These cities tend to have high population growth and high growth rates in GDP per capita, demographic and economic tailwinds that help to boost returns.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. This frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics. Here are some striking examples of how these digital innovators are shaping the frugal economy worldwide: Healthcare. To rein in these costs and deliver better care at lower cost, the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. This looks unlikely.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. Consider that three out of the four largest economies in the world in 2030 are expected to be in Asia; by 2050 , half of the global GDP will come from Asia; three of the top six trading partners for the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 In fact, private capital investment, an even larger ticket item than R&D, has also been increasing and is at historically high levels of GDP. National competitiveness Finance & Accounting Research & development' The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Some past studies on climate economics, like the famous Stern Report a decade ago, assessed the macro-level risk to GDP as a whole. Will that asset be operational or retain its value over the normal depreciation period? It’s not the first time economists have warned us about the costs of a changing climate.

Cost 8

Cost Real Estate Depreciation Long-term 8

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. ” In many countries, several websites or digital companies are blocked.

Innovation 9

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. percentage points of GDP growth per year). We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

GDP grew by 1.9% last year, unemployment is slowly decreasing , and public finances are improving faster than anticipated. The next question will be whether they have the power to stop him from changing the way they themselves operate. Thus far, they have failed to disrupt things enough to force concessions from Macron.

Proposal 9

Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Farmers must also grow more on the land they currently operate through what is called “sustainable intensification.” And because banking sectors in developing countries give fewer loans to farmers (compared to the share of agriculture in GDP), investments by both farmers and large corporations are still limited.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The UK is often identified as a global hub (a position that is going to be tested during the Brexit process), with strong global economic and political connections; New Zealand is geographically distant from much of the economic and political centers of the world, and is used to operating at the periphery of the global economy.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. The SOEs produce 33% of China’s GDP and account for 20% of its jobs; the central government controls one-third of the SOEs. They enjoy lower taxes and selective anti-trust enforcement to shield them from private competitors.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect. Mexico and Brazil alone account for over 60% of Latin America’s GDP and most regional revenue for multinationals.

Market Risk 13

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Infrastructure spending as a percentage of GDP in the U.S. Trump has talked about another financing mechanism—offering tax credits to fuel infrastructure spending.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

and Cuba could implement over the next two years will be critical for helping business executives determine the level of urgency around developing their Cuba operation. With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America).

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Long-term GDP 8