Gdp - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

11 years later, with market penetration essentially complete, that number hovers around 6 million, with over $300 million in annual revenues. Afghanistan’s stability, however, is entering a particularly challenging time. GDP growth is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do

virtually carbon neutral, thus showcasing sustainable technologies adapted for the world’s tropical zones. That could add transformative value to the tourism industry — estimated to be 10 percent of global GDP — in many areas of the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2009
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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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

21 Oct 2013
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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

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2005
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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

26 Feb 2020
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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 2017
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The Realities of the Refugee Crisis

very carefully how Europe responds, because they see it as setting a template for how to manage refugee flows in general. What are the economic impacts of a large refugee flow? GT: The economic research on this is not totally solid. Eventually, we think that in terms... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

few natural resources, a small, destroyed manufacturing base, and income per capita less than a quarter of Britain’s to one of the most prosperous nations on Earth. By 2015 its GDP per capita was over 40% higher than Britain’s. How did... View Details

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

much when I became Prime Minister because I knew how it is to go through difficult times and to think that if, you know, I fail, it's not the end. So many, many times because the situation, believe me, was abnormally difficult—we had lost 25 percent of our View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

competitiveness. Total health-care spending as a percentage of GDP is 16 percent, compared with Canada’s 10 percent and Japan’s 7.9 percent. U.S. per capita health-care expenditures, at $7,026, are the highest in the world, versus... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

has outpaced the nation’s GDP in all but two years since 1950. Four years after Watson went to med school, there is Watson for radiology, Watson for oncology, Watson for diabetes, and Watson for primary care. Watson serves “thousands” of... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

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