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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
breaks the backs of U.S. firms that compete with companies in countries spending, at most, 12 percent of GDP on health care. Yet, despite this torrent of cash, more than 40 million Americans lack health insurance, mostly because they... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
“hoping” that consumer and small-business debt will accelerate GDP growth (like Brazil did at the beginning of the century). Will this new measure take the Chinese consumer beyond tolerable levels of debt-to-income ratio? —Robert... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
gives them a personalized geo-tagged best practices schedule to help increase the per-acre yield of their lands. Therefore, the two major outcomes from Bagh-e are increased financial inclusion and per-acre yields for small-scale farmers. This is an important issue... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
"some 12 to 15 percent of GDP in Europe was public sector enterprise," he said. But all that began to change in the early 1980s amid loud cries of inefficiency, as markets opened up and governments sought sources of revenue.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
worked so hard to build? Simple. From Perkowski’s ringside seat inside the Middle Kingdom, the entrepreneurial grass now grew greener elsewhere. While he was busy building ASIMCO, the Chinese economy took off with a galloping GDP and... View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
government hopes that the tourism industry will revitalize the region and account for 10 percent of the country’s GDP in a decade, up from just 3 percent. The work of drawing global attention to this forgotten swath of the country is part... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
to a major airline, and we saved them about 240 flight cancellations and 40 diversions. That alone is worth around $20 million.” Indeed, weather has an enormous impact on the economy. According to the National Weather Service, between 3 and 6 percent of variability in... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- Web
Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog
equity firm, search fund model or a public company that through dual class stock is still family controlled. It is also useful for everyone going into general management and / or want to be responsible owner investors. 90% of the global View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
size is its strength.” The substantial financial resources at Monaco’s disposal are also an advantage, enabling major investments in technology and the infrastructure to support it. In 2019, the country had the second highest GDP per... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
California Though the United States currently spends approximately $3.5 trillion a year on health care—the equivalent of the entire GDP of the world’s fourth-largest economy—our life expectancy has decreased for the last two years in a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
we estimate a $115 million loss in GDP a year in Rwanda alone.” SHE picked Rwanda as its first business site because it is one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. The organization already has global reach. Scharpf recently hopped... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
confirmed this notion using the detailed database, updated in real time until the end of May. There is a “stark difference between the announcements as a share of GDP in the developed countries relative to the developing countries,” says... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist
concluded, “Our big job is to prove that water is an enormous economic and impact opportunity. 66% of GDP relies on it! This isn’t going away, and I hope more people come into the funding market. Our job will be to stay competitive.”... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
talked about how the GDP of a nation correlates directly to the health, education, and productivity of women." Seegull, who lives in Santa Monica, California, and is a ranked beach volleyball player, recently returned to HBS for an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
and oil and gas, that it says could enable value creation to the tune of $2 trillion to $3 trillion in the next decade—a figure on par with the GDP of France or Italy. To create a vision of what that might look like, Professor Yoffie... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
that in countries with higher GDP growth leverage is correlated with less corporate financial fragility. Consistent with Gabaix (2011) this paper finds a granularity effect in that large firms are systemically important—idiosyncratic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa
important strides economically, politically, and socially. By the year 2020, McKinsey Global Institute estimates that Africa’s GDP will reach $2.6 trillion and by 2040, over 1.1 billion Africans will be of working age! This economic... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
period when overall GDP grew by only 5 percent. "Through the years of the 'Great Recession' and the very slow climb back, the businesses that live on the Internet have been a conspicuous exception to the general pattern of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
10 percent of GDP, per capita GDP is just shy of $500, and it has slightly more than one billion people. It is a relatively closed economy without a great deal of foreign investment. Today, the globalization imperative is driving Western... View Details