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Europeans Are Increasingly Unhappy With Their Employment Status

The Horizons Tracker

The period from 2004 to 2010 had a specific section on one’s employment characteristics. These countries also have a lower number of vacancies, which makes it hard for either unemployed or new entrants to the job market to find work. What’s more, their struggles can often endure for a prolonged period of time.

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Privacy is a Luxury You Don't Have

Harvard Business Review

I remember my first taste of social networking — a 2004 invitation to join Friendster. And — proving the supremacy of word-of-mouth marketing — while I could resist my lone friend two years before, I couldn't turn down a classroom of 25 pleading college students. But for most people, at least in the U.S.,

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Fostering innovation.

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What Chinese Companies Want from International Deals

Harvard Business Review

Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Access to mature global markets. Lenovo bought IBM’s PC business in 2004 (and its x86 server business in 2014) for access to brands and customer relationships in mature markets in developed countries. Technology.

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Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn't entrepreneurship, it's corporate serfdom.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. billion in 2010.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. Kent goes on to say that the key to their success in India “has been learning to see the Indian market as it is, not as we wished it to be.”