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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

It was originated by the energy company Eesti Energia and developed a four-step methodology to engender an entrepreneurial mindset in students ranging from 13 to 19 years of age. These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. ” Broad horizons. .

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What Chinese Companies Want from International Deals

Harvard Business Review

Chinese companies want access to energy, raw materials, and food that will support growth in their economy and in their customers’ needs—especially at the high end. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. producer of pork. The acquisition was a huge success.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% imported 560% more technologically-advanced products from China than it exported to that country. billion in 2010.

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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. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M. internet company in China.

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

Harvard Business Review

India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. In the hyperbole of online media, one headline reads, India is the last BRIC Standing. David Mulford, U.S.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.