The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This bias towards high-skilled immigrants is demonstrated by the “labor availability test”, which says that people from outside the EU can only come to Finland to work if no one from either the Finnish or European labor market can fill the role. Such an attitude is not only elitist, but also illogical.

Skills 98

Skills GDP Analysis System 98

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Improve Your Distribution Network Through Standardisation.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

There is also evidence to suggest that the entrepreneurs that are in operation are less creative and innovative than their forebears. For instance, the ratio of patents to GDP has been in decline in the United States for years, while the cost for each patent is on the rise. in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption. Hype run wild.

Venture Capitalist 45

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator 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. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%.

GDP 10

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

Marketing 13

Marketing GDP Industry Objective 13

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 15

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 9

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 9

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

JUNE 26, 2012

debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. Salinas instituted market reforms lauded by Washington, including the North American Free Trade Agreement.

GDP 14

GDP Banking Price Crisis 14

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. Chief among these are access to capital, access to markets, and access to networks and skills development. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

GDP 16

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

In both direct military operations and the hidden world of intelligence, the UK contributes more than its share to global peace and stability and the successful functioning of the NATO alliance. Thus, attempts to estimate what Brexit will cost the UK in GDP terms don’t go far enough.

GDP 15

GDP Globalization Long-term Cost 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. The modeling and simulation relies on two important features.

GDP 14

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

For instance, in 1880 most inventive activity was the result of inventors operating outside the boundaries of firms. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. By analyzing this data, we were able to shed light on why the U.S. was so innovative.

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Innovation GDP Education Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. ” Meanwhile, skeptics highlight Amazon’s lack of expertise in health care, a sector that many deem curiously resistant to the competitive forces that characterize the retail and web services markets in which Amazon has thrived. jamie jones/Getty Images.

Health Care 17

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value. For cities, we analyze nearly 3,000 of the world’s largest cities by population that together account for 67% of global GDP.

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? The more Enronian GDP "grows," the steeper the eventual bill of underpaid costs and overbought benefits to be paid. UK Uncut is self-organizing demonstrations against mobile operators and banks.

Incentives 17

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. In some sectors, the global market demands for English-speaking workers makes a global career quite attractive. Translators were employed for cross-border communications. Aspiring to a global career.

Succession 16

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 16

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 15

Development Porter Banking Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In short, Japan enjoyed asymmetric openness — access to foreign technology and export markets but protection from foreign competition. China, by contrast, is simply open. Japan grew with essentially zero foreign direct investment (FDI). Of course, this system has turned China into a manufacturing juggernaut.

Comparison 16

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. But, as participants in these programs regularly articulate, they are insufficient without access to capital and markets.

Globalization 15

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. As cloud technology improves, however, it is becoming easier for companies to create products and services within the cloud, or model new products or marketing campaigns as cloud-based software prototypes.

Management 16

Management Software BPM Technology 16

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. 11/pad) for the cheapest imported sanitary pad can often be simply unaffordable.

Franchising 17

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 17

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

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

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 For example, despite all the froth about how companies need to accelerate growth in emerging markets, three-quarters of the U.S. executives surveyed said they will continue to invest heavily in their home market, which is a largely mature and slow-growing economy.

Efficiency 9

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 9

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 10

Education Technology IPO GDP 10

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

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). 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. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. 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.

Technology 9

Technology Industry GDP Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.).

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals.

Globalization 9

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Since two-thirds of world’s growth in GDP is likely come from poor countries, reverse innovation is an important phenomenon. However, this also presents some of the hardest technical challenges for humanity, where we cannot simply adapt solutions used in wealthy markets. Reverse innovation is doing exactly the opposite.

Education 11

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

Microfinance 11

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. In other words, they connected with people who could help them with customer issues, such as staff in finance, legal, pricing, or marketing. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap.

Human Capital 16

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 16

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. That would, in effect, boost GDP per worker from $120,000 to $141,000. GDP could grow by $3 trillion — and the actual figure would likely be higher. .”

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Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8