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Does Customer Prejudice Help Drive the Employment Gap Between White and Black Americans?

Harvard Business Review

The idea of customer discrimination influencing the labor market stems from the economic theory of taste-based discrimination, or when some individuals prefer not to interact with people from certain demographics. Consumer discrimination in the labor market has not been extensively studied, but other research has borne this out.

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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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The HBR Approach to Failure

Harvard Business Review

To set about answering that question, we ran a semantic clustering analysis on a sample of articles from HBR's archives over the course of several periods between 1990 and 2010 (the time period when the HBR online archive is the most complete). 2007-2010 is not surprisingly dominated by negatives.

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Research: Most Large Companies Can’t Maintain Their Revenue Streams

Harvard Business Review

My “growth outliers” project looked at publicly traded firms with market capitalizations of greater than US 1 Billion as of 2009, using data from Capital IQ. In the 2004 sample, roughly 20% of the firms came from emerging markets. By 2010, the typical S&P company was 16 or 17 years old.