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Creating Michelin-star Quality for the Masses

Harvard Business Review

According to the 2010 Michelin Guide, there are 229 one-star, 37 two-star, and as many as six three-star restaurants in Italy. It's a difficult industry, where consumers are usually better off than cooks. One, he found opportunities to do away with features that used to be standard in the industry.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. and the competitive intensity of its industry.

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

It's an example of an organization seeking to meet this challenge of scale by providing top-tier, in-kind expertise and working capital to promising social enterprises. Since it started its work in December 2010, SBT has invested in five social enterprises, which have since collectively increased their revenues by 77%.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. Due to huge capital requirements, these investments could exert considerable pressure on the working capital of the carrier company. In the U.S.,

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.