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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. In 2011, the U.S.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. 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.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested. It had the world’s first and best compact disc players.