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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. But even great management cannot protect these airlines. Perhaps not as an Apple TV, or perhaps not as the innovation that Cook was hinting at for Q3 this year. Disruptive innovation' Will it happen?