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These 6 Sectors of Africa’s Economy Are Poised for Growth

Harvard Business Review

a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010. from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% between 2000 and 2010. trillion in 2015 to $3.5 For instance, we find that only 30% of revenues are earned by companies that operate in the resources sector.

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Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab

Harvard Business Review

Now Amazon can supplement that knowledge with direct, proprietary insights about the offline retail world. What Amazon will now study in the brick-and-mortar world – and more importantly, what it learns and how it applies the insights – can transform consumer retail in the United States. Changing price perception.

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Unilever’s Big Strategic Bet on the Dollar Shave Club

Harvard Business Review

million Series D in November 2015 — Dollar Shave Club had been valued at $630 million, according to Pitchbook. While Dollar Shave Club represents a growing share of the razorblades market, it is still tiny, it operates with low margins, is made up of an irreverent albeit engineering-savvy team – and is, as yet, unprofitable.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. A leapfrog effect will mean that three of every four Net users will do so by 2015. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly.

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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Even smaller cities like Portland, Nashville, and Austin are attempting to curb their own deep-seated divides. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly. Participating retailers are promoted on the Silver Cross website, at health fairs, and on all marketing collateral. Only time will tell.