The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Are we all entrepreneurs now? in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After all, research from the IMF shows that low-skilled immigration raises labor productivity and GDP per capita, with these gains typically shared across the population. Such an attitude is not only elitist, but also illogical.

Skills 124

Skills GDP Analysis System 124

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

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.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 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

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

3) Don’t let “freedom from” obstruct “freedom to.” Social media can help liberate employees from traditional hierarchies and structures that stifle collaboration and innovation but only if new frameworks replace what previously existed. 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 8) Measure HOW, not ‘How much.’

How To 110

How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

He argued that it would not only protect the rights of a diverse workforce but also foster innovation: “Embracing people’s individuality is a matter of basic human dignity and civil rights. state-level ENDAs on corporate patent-based innovation. It also turns out to be great for the creativity that drives our business.”

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Human Capital Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Historically, multinationals innovated in rich countries and sold those products in poor countries. Reverse innovation is doing exactly the opposite. It is about innovating in poor countries and selling those products in rich countries. Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering.

Education 9

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 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

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

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. Innovation in Cities. Social impact bonds could be one of the most innovative and effective. Insight Center. Pay-for-success could be an appropriate generator of enthusiasm, too.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

Innovation 14

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 14

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. That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 Not so fast.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services.

Long-term 11

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Here’s the arithmetic.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have. That was down from 9.7%

GDP 15

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors. Second is that returns for front-runners tend to be large.

GDP 11

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% MGI has identified sufficient opportunities to boost productivity growth to 4% in the 19 national economies of the G20 group plus Nigeria, which together account for 80% of world GDP. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1%

Globalization 8

Globalization Products Productivity GDP 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. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Digital transformation forces wholesale change to the foundations of an enterprise — from its operating model to its infrastructure, what it sells, and to whom and how. Industries dominated by information-rich assets (think publishing and music) were swept up in the early wave of internet innovation. No industry is immune.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. For existing health care companies, the operative words in that mandate have been “health care”; for Amazon, the operative words likely are “service that needs to be delivered to a customer.” jamie jones/Getty Images.

Health Care 11

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The United States takes pride in being on the cutting edge of all things digital, and rightly so: American innovations and innovators have led the way. economy operates at only 18% of its digital potential, and the sort of productivity gains that digital technologies should be enabling are not showing up in the broader economy.

Company 8

Company Technology Innovation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 Sounds good; “New investment in innovative technologies” makes a great headline for the next earnings call or annual report. companies are great at improving existing operations and thinking of new ways to apply technology to drive productivity. to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

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 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Today’s model is using African diasporas where companies hire native Africans living abroad and then send them to the continent to expand their operations. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. Education drives technology.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. By bringing them into their ecosystems, the larger competitive firms help instill management and operational best practices, and can accelerate and encourage technology adoption.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8

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 13

Management Software BPM Technology 13

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. Programs like the Center for Women''s Entrepreneurial Leadership are innovating in the academic space.

Globalization 14

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. Innovation atrophy. The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs. But China has a long way to go to play this role.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cluster hammers had never been used to such depths — and never in Chile at all — but in a striking display of openness, the managers of the rescue operation tried the suggestion, which proved to be a key decision in bringing all 33 miners to safety. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center. Missing the forest for the trees.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 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

MARCH 16, 2016

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. This has been driven by three factors: Lack of capital investment. This is why U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential. Generally speaking, entrepreneurs may need to rethink their risks to improve the chances that their innovations succeed. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8