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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. In 2010, J.P In 2010, J.P Impact investing can learn from the history of microfinance — the provision of debt and other financial services to the poor — an industry that was at a similar stage 15 years ago.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma.

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How Shameless Copycatting Can Save Europe

Harvard Business Review

The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework. As a result, existing work processes, schedules, and procedures could be adjusted and reorganized not only, as before, at the industry or sector-wide level, but crucially also at the firm and the plant level.

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Google Changes the Playing Field on News

Harvard Business Review

Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. All rights reserved.