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- 01 Jun 2006
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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...
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Julia Hanna
- 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...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
transition. [Mandela awarded honorary degree from Harvard.] Mandela and his colleagues have emphasized deficit reduction, privatization, and fiscal conservatism, and the results of their policies are now beginning to bear fruit. Since 1993, for example, View Details
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
verge of extraordinary economic growth. And with GDP growth, people will start to travel. Except back then, there was no market segmentation, whatever-- when you talk about traveling to China, everybody had the same itinerary, the same...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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FIELD 2 in Accra
global business environment. Among this year's FIELD 2 countries, Ghana has both the lowest GDP per capita and the highest rate of GDP growth. "The country has a large and growing wealth divide," notes...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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An Unconventional Suggestion
Consulting Group proposed an 11-point plan of regulatory reforms, technological advances, and infrastructure and workforce development. The goal: to realize the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil (already adding more than $430 billion to annual View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
out of the recession, more and more people are asking themselves, do I really need more stuff? People are relieved to have this option." Finally, Cordero points out the stunning spike in college costs and the need to make saving easier: "No cost in American View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
with per capita health-care costs rising faster than per capita GDP in all but a few countries. The gathering seemed to agree that all parties shared blame for the US system's problems, including the American people for their unhealthy...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 20 Aug 2016
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The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
practices to bear on how we run hospitals. In America, we spend 17 percent of the GDP on health care, for some of the worst outcomes in the developed world. We’re in dramatic need of novel, creative ideas to improve the care that we...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Working World
policymakers in a way that leads to improved choices and decisions. The more analysis informs this debate, the better, so that we can more easily understand and model the outcome. When we make changes to immigration policy, what is the impact on View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
special benefits package consisting of a 10-year tax holiday (corporate and personal), a 99-year land lease at concessionary rates, grants of up to $750K, no customs or duty taxes, and more. Macedonia’s economy has been stable since its independence in 1991 with strong...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
valuations," Buffett asserted that high interest rates were to blame for keeping the Dow Jones Industrial Average virtually unchanged between 1964 and 1981 despite a 370 percent increase in U.S. GDP during that period. From 1982 through...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Research Brief: Capitol Gains
representatives from the 101st to 110th Congresses. After assessing the main purpose of each bill and classifying each according to 49 industry categories, they watched how legislators voted when their home state's GDP was significantly...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Book Review: The Old West
Pinto says Western business leaders have shown "extraordinary complacency in the face of upheavals." The numbers don't look good for the West. The United States, Great Britain, and France have each seen their average GDP growth hover...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2007
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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...
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- 27 May 2021
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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...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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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...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 May 2019
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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...
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Mar 2019
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
might increase costs by 3–4 percent of world GDP, but the costs of inaction are far greater. She noted that, according to the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment, climate change could cost the US 10 percent of its GDP by the end of...
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