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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. Since 2008, through government subsidies, the manufacturing capacity of China''s solar-panel industry grew tenfold, leading to a vast global oversupply.

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The U.S. Can’t Count on Technology to Revive the Job Market

Harvard Business Review

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 There are indeed many interesting applications in niches like prototyping, prosthetics, customized consumer products, jewelry, and even some industrial components such as turbine blades. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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An Investigation of Online Reviews Uncovers a World of Lies

Harvard Business Review

I Give This Blurb 3 Stars Operation Clean Turf and the War on Fake Yelp Reviews Businessweek Were the 19 companies accused of commissioning fake online reviews the only firms out there engaged in this nefarious practice? Internet Tech industry' Not likely. Federal Trade Commission says 15% to 20% of all reader reviews might be fake.

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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

What the naysayers are overlooking or ignoring is that one could have made a list for Steve Jobs that would look remarkably similar: Missed earnings: Apple posted a $247 million quarterly loss ( in 2001 , four years after Jobs took over — and the stock went UP in after-hours trading). Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate.

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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business Review

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. It impacts people’s livelihoods at the personal and community level.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001. Maybe in 2010 it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site. And Kodak totally missed that. But it didn’t, entirely.