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%.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The answer is for organizations to develop the institutional frameworks to replace traditional structures and forms of governance and establish a more human operating system in which governance, culture and leadership systems are harmonized and synchronized. 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 8) Measure HOW, not ‘How much.’

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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.

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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. The modeling and simulation relies on two important features.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.).

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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. 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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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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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.

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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%

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. 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.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2018

Falling incomes will have grave consequences in places like the United States and Europe, where consumption accounts for 56% or 69% of GDP , respectively, requiring new social supports, such as a universal basic income. The result will be massive unemployment, falling wages, and wrenching economic dislocation. The Utopians.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. A further overrepresentation of the actual market size is determined by methodological inconsistencies. Cuba has been mired in stagnation for nearly two decades , with the regime unable to generate higher productivity.

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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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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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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.

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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. Consumer demand in all markets, aided by technology, will drive disruption in the health care industry. Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion. For example, American services marketplace Thumbtack leverages close to 1,000 home-based contractors in the Philippines to help with business operations. As a start-up founder, my biggest competitors in the talent market are no longer the local family conglomerates.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Firms with a cost or quality advantage have always enjoyed higher market shares. In the “good old days,” more-productive companies would take a bigger slice of the market, but there would be plenty left over for their rivals. Several pieces of data support our superstar theory.

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