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- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
decade, money from around the world has poured into the United States. Despite massive investments, when adjusted for inflation, U.S. GDP grew slowly, with much of the growth from professional and business services—including real estate,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
and its implied elasticities are in the ballpark of a range of micro estimates. We find industrial policy subsidizing either the R&D or the continued operation of incumbents reduces growth and welfare. For example, a subsidy to incumbent R&D equivalent to 5% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
in the north of Spain, physically separated from it by the Pyrenees Mountains. Presents the history of the region-highly prosperous at the turn of the 20th century but nearing bankruptcy by the 1950s. By 2001, the Basque GDP per capita... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
that trouble was coming, just as the fact that in the United States consumer consumption has gone from 65 percent to 70 percent of GDP since 1970. The idea that the United States can maintain 300 million people in a broadly middle-class... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
our sample. We denote these time lags as technology usage lags and compare them with lags in real GDP per capita. We find that (i) technology usage lags are large, often comparable to lags in real GDP per... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
creates wealth for some people): The lesson of successes like Iskandar in Malaysia are that real estate follows other activity: population growth and GDP growth. Dynamism and jobs can't be created on a large scale just by people wanting... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
Everest, the hilly regions, and then the Himalayan foothills, which contains most of the good agricultural land. Economically there are huge variations, too. Nepal is a poor country: GDP is only around $270 a year, and right before the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
analysis of the percentage of the GDP in the shadow economy found this country to have the lowest percentage. Fiscal conservatives have plenty of reasons to deplore other aspects of the health care reform legislation. By expanding... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
filled, even the blare of rush-hour traffic clogging the central square of Athens out front—is the sound of Greece’s GDP on the move. It’s the ring of an economy finally looking up. “This place would have been empty in 2015,” says Dimos... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
over 2 percent of our sales. And that exceeds the development aid as a percentage of GDP of many countries, where the agreed target should be .07 percent of GDP. Most countries are way below that. However, we cannot fix poor governance,... View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
that has borrowed freely from others around the world. "With the United States accounting for approximately 30 percent of the world's GDP and as the home to 62 out of the 100 most valuable brands in the world, it's not surprising... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
world’s GDP and as the home to 62 out of the 100 most valuable brands in the world, it’s not surprising that America is in the driver’s seat,” Quelch notes. He characterizes the U.S. model of management as focused on immediate outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for 10% of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health care costs were expected to top $3.1 trillion in 2014. New technologies, shortages of trained personnel, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the world witnessed an explosion in capital flows at the global level. Gross foreign assets and liabilities stood at two or three times... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
GDP growth hitting a peak of 7.5% in 2010. However, the high cost of conducting business in Brazil, known as "Custo Brasil," was hurting domestic manufacturing, while incoming foreign investments threatened to overwhelm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
of the happiest countries in spite of a tumultuous history, low life expectancy, a dismal literacy rate, a small and undiversified economy, and low GDP per capita. Everyone, it seemed, from tourists and Hollywood screenwriters to leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
2012. The projections appeared contrary to Hayman Capital's views on Japan, where the fund had built a bearish position. Japan had the world's highest debt burden, whether expressed as a percentage of GDP or government revenue. Guided by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
country’s economic health? There’s little doubt that manufacturing as a percentage of our GDP is down. Part of that represents tremendous growth in financial, IT, and health services. It’s hard to know whether it’s a good news story for... View Details