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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. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. Fostering innovation. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Yelp's IPO Will Test the Flaws in Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Yelp's timing reflects both a tech-friendly market and the company's current position as the dominant consumer-review web site. When Yelp began in 2004, this would have been a devastating prospect. In a recent sample, nearly one out of every five reviews was filtered. And to some extent, it still is. This is fine, in principle.

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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.