Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. But for women to succeed as entrepreneurs or as managers, other tools are useful, if not essential.

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Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

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. Global business'

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GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 10

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

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The constant relationship between management theory and applied technology shouldn’t be too surprising.

Management 15

Management Software BPM Technology 15

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

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

The current setup for taxing the foreign operations of U.S. corporations allows them to defer taxes on their profits from international operations until they bring the cash back to the U.S. An economic distortion caused by the tax code — by which foreign corporations operating in the U.S. or whatever. are favored over U.S.-based

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GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. For countries that are struggling to recover from war, negative economic shocks of just 5% can increase a country's risk of civil war.

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GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

These “superstar” sectors include financial services such as banking, insurance, and asset management, professional services, internet and software, real estate, and pharmaceuticals and medical products. Using our metric of GDP and personal income per capita, we identify 50 top superstar cities.

Industry 15

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. Innovation atrophy. That's the Enronian economy in a microcosm.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% of the U.S.

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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.

GDP 14

GDP Long-term McKinsey Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

My company understands that we do not operate in a bubble. In some parts of the world government mismanagement of community development (deliberate or otherwise) has led to civil strife, sometimes resulting in armed conflict, creating a security scenario where business simply cannot continue to operate.

Development 14

Development Porter Banking Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees.

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Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

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.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Additionally, managing corrupt business practices often makes it difficult for MNCs to realize growth potential in the short term. Latin America.

Marketing 9

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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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. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. Managing Emotion Effectively Keeps Business On Track. Emotion Inspires Ongoing Development and Builds Community.

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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!!

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 17

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 is similar.

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Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

According to another study , more than 40% of Fortune 500 companies operating in 2010 were founded by immigrants or their children — including some of the most well-known brands, from Apple and IBM to Disney and McDonalds. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. You may not think of yourself as an immigrant.

Career 15

Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

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.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

The tragedy is that countless people died even though both workers and management knew something was wrong. It’s imperative that brands operating in Bangladesh join collaborations like these. But the tragedy of Rana Plaza isn’t that a building fell down. Are they adding value to the company’s reputation and helping mitigate risk?

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 10

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. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

It covers roughly 70% of Turkey’s GDP. This still renders Turkey as a good base of operations for many international businesses that are invested in the Middle East, Balkans, and the Caucasus – inherently high-risk areas. But it does help explain how the country has so far managed to insulate its economy.

Tourism 13

Tourism Politics Uncertainty Price 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 companies in the study generally view digital technologies as a way to streamline existing operations and improve customer relationships — not as an engine for growth. After more than five years of sluggish growth, U.S. to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S. Indeed, U.S.

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Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 9

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%

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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 10

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 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. 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

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Companies operating in SSA cannot ignore the country, even though it will suffer substantially from the impact of low oil prices on the currency and business activity.

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GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The language this year is even broader, but he’s been hitting these themes for a while: The 2017 letter : “[are you] attuned to the key factors that contribute to long-term growth…attention to external and environmental factors…and recognition of the company’s role as a member of the communities in which it operates.”

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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.

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

Using data to manage is nothing new. But using big data to manage IS new, offering unprecedented challenges, opportunity, and risk. Some data is inherently inaccurate (GDP forecasts); other data becomes inaccurate through processing errors. We''re particularly concerned about change management.

Information Technology 9

Information Technology Uncertainty Short-term GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. Two-thirds of small business managers declare to have been negatively affected by weather over the last three years. However, efficient risk management can only take place on the condition that the risks are defined.

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Here, too, the directional impact has been analyzed credibly, with estimates ranging from 3%–9% of GDP loss. The key questions are about the impact on your firm’s business model, operating model, EU institutional arrangements and financial structures, and performance. For example, a U.S. Run scenarios.

Uncertainty 13

Uncertainty Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

(Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.). But, for example, our research found that oil and gas only made up 11% of Nigeria’s GDP in 2014, compared with 20% for construction.

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