Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. Once unleashed, this passionate sense of purpose — as long as it remains consistent and authentic — opens new doors. The companies noted in this study had combined revenues of $4.2 You may not think of yourself as an immigrant. But you can still learn to think like one.

Career 15

Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

He''s also just written a book, Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. What follows are edited excerpts of our conversation: In your book, you make a link between whether people feel like they''re achieving something at work and overall economic growth. Well that throws me for a bit of loop.

Open-book 8

Open-book Innovation Policies Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

In a heartbeat, most people choose the latter, because value without values is what reality TV is to a great book: empty, vacant, narrow, arid. The leader knows their job is very different: not merely to maximize existing metrics, which are often part of the problem (hi, GDP, shareholder value), but to reimagine them.

Incentives 14

Incentives Metrics Follow-up GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

So what did it take for Kaffeine's barista to offer to make me — the slightly awkward dude in combat boots hanging out in the corner for the last few weeks working furiously on his next book — a coffee that wasn't just "mine", but designed to improve, at a tiny level, my life? Consider the curious case of profitability.

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Open-book Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Expenses considered short-term flow entirely through yearly income statements, while longer-horizon investments are capitalized and amortized on the books over many years. And 2015 is looking even better, with R&D investment at the highest level (as a percentage of GDP) in the history of America.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 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. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The tenth anniversary of 9/11 amidst the ongoing employment crisis has opened a wide conversation about what ails America and what should be done about it. I'm working on a book, CQ — Creative Intelligence , that will, in part, explore that topic. as global hegemon. as global hegemon. Here's what I've been thinking.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

It was the largest sovereign debt default in world history, and GDP fell by some 30% coupled with a 300% currency devaluation. This post is adapted from my forthcoming book, It’s Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014). An HBR Insight Center.

Emotional Intelligence 10

Emotional Intelligence GDP McKinsey Consultative 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. The short story is that we have less room than before.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Energy Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In the fall he came out with a book setting out his new and improved worldview, The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting. I guess they shut it down in June,” he says, estimating when the book went to the printer. The book is not the world’s most coherent. It’s true of GDP.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The most obvious distinction between the two markets is that China is mostly closed to international players because of state restrictions, while India is, technically, open for business. Currently, China is ahead on the major economic metrics: to add as much to its GDP as China will in 2018, India would need to grow by 40%.

Airlines 10

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

Still, it wasn’t until 50 years later that Edison opened his first power plant, and then 40 years after that, during the 1920s, electricity began to have a measurable impact on productivity. Even now, information technologies make up only about 6% of GDP in advanced economies.

Industry 14

Industry GDP Technology Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

Of course, over the past four years Republican economic opinion has shifted rightward, so one might want to consider another alternative world — call it DeMint ia — where all the big banks were allowed to fail, government spending was cut dramatically, and the Federal Open Market Committee was replaced with a simple gold standard.

IAS 12

IAS GDP Policies Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

He tried to open several businesses on the side but none worked, so he kept that job for 38 years. Vance’s book passes harsh judgment on his hard-living relatives, which is not uncommon among settled families who kept their nose clean through sheer force of will. This is a second source of resentment against the poor.

Class 15

Class Open-book Policies Politics 15