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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

To date, 20 startups have been created and sit alongside over 50 multinational companies, including Cisco, Microsoft, General Electric, and a who’s who of the global oil and gas community. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

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What We Can Learn About the Economics of Discrimination from a Chilling Study of 1930s Germany

Harvard Business Review

What are the costs of this, beyond stifling or ending the careers of thousands of people? The latter type of government policy in particular is reflected in current events and global history. For example, after Apple CEO Steve Jobs took permanent medical leave in 2011, Apple stock fell by 6%.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. And I still do now.