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).

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Transportation Technology GDP Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

In fact, America owes much of its recent growth, technological innovation, and socioeconomic progress, to inept managers. European taxpayers have funded much of the brainpower that stimulated technological innovation and economic growth in the U.S. Surely their former employers regret letting them go?

Leadership 20

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 20

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. The context for technological development was very different a century ago. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level.

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Innovation GDP Education Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States, which needed allies against the Soviet Union, not only tolerated Japanese protectionism but also transferred advanced technology to Japan and subsidized Japanese firms. In short, Japan enjoyed asymmetric openness — access to foreign technology and export markets but protection from foreign competition.

Comparison 16

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 16

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. in the most radical technologies. by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. But the fairy tale that the U.S. In the U.S.,

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. 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. By the time George Washington signed the first U.S.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

It lumps fundraising in with finance, human resources, leadership training, technology, and other administrative functions. So if you want to build capacity, don't fund technology and HR, fund the fundraising for those things. at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged. How could it?

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GDP Human Resources Finance Technology 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The latest employment statistics did little to allay fears of a jobless recovery in the US — a situation in which GDP growth and corporate profits return to healthy levels, but unemployment remains high. Technology is letting companies do more and more with less and less, and with fewer and fewer people.

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Outsourcing Offshoring GDP Information Technology 15

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.".

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Management Software BPM Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In a relatively short time, venture-backed companies have grown to account for over 20% of US GDP today. The industry was born in its current form, however, when the first venture capital firms were founded in the middle of the twentieth century. The best VCs have successfully identified major industry disruptions before they occur.

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Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 16

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%.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7% capital investment, shipping 71.1% of all U.S.

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Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. A payment of cash to Eurozone households of 3-5% of GDP would probably suffice to generate a recovery.

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GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Oil was discovered in the Congo worth about 28 times its GDP. FINANCING THAT VACATION HOME IN VANUATU. How Google Plans to Find the UnGoogleable (Technology Review). While attention was focused on the rise of the Latino vote, Asians overtook Latin Americans as the fastest-growing immigrant group in the U.S, On Facebook, Too.

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Outsourcing GDP Bottom-up Call Center 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 10

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 10

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. CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. General Electric is a good example. It’s neither.

Globalization 9

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Implications for city leaders: Leaders should loosen restrictions so that private finance can invest in improvements to physical infrastructure, to better use what already exists. Elites can be distracted by cool technology and tourist-friendly innovations, but that’s not the whole story. Segment 3: Emerging Economy, New City.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. Yet, along other dimensions, the state is unwittingly hindering China’s emergence as a technological giant. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% in 2000 to 2.0%

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Marketing 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

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. could harness technologies like 3D printing to build affordable houses faster and cleaner and make them accessible to most Americans. 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

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Six years after the global recession began, many parts of the world are still struggling to achieve growth. “I see the sparkle in the eyes of a few.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

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. Some, like the development of specific technology for a new product, largely benefit one firm. National competitiveness Finance & Accounting Research & development'

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

Innovation 9

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

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

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. more competition to reduce consumer prices, sharing international best practices, technology transfer, public-private partnerships) needed to boost the economy’s health. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 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. Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies.

Cost 8

Cost Real Estate Depreciation Long-term 8

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.) In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 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. Moreover, new technologies are helping cushion the effect of transport strikes by allowing people to work from home or share car rides.

Proposal 9

Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

There is also a technology outsourcing industry. And some important reforms of state finances haven’t happened. Poland on the one side and Russia on the other are both in the low twenty-thousands in GDP per capita, and Ukraine is officially at $7,298. Why is the economy such a mess? Because of very bad, kleptocratic governments.

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Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It’s true of GDP. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

Long-term 15

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

There's a growing middle class, expanded GDP, and general optimism in the region. Africa has become a place where financial institutions are financing real estate projects. The Americans took over through investments in science and technology; today, the greatness of the U.S. Africa is not creating any. If the U.S.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Education GDP Hotels 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

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. of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S. How has Europe dealt with the situation? position.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It happens every time there’s a big announcement about a national or regional innovation policy that will lead us into the future: We are presented with schemes to strengthen intellectual property rights, enlarge the pool of risk financing, and upgrade the universities while pushing them to collaborate more with industry.

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