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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program. .”

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. How has Europe dealt with the situation? Investing in innovation capacity.

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