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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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Entrepreneurship Always Leads to Inequality

Harvard Business Review

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. With all the buzz around disruptive innovation as a driver of business success in recent years, it’s important not to forget this original meaning.

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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. Perhaps not as an Apple TV, or perhaps not as the innovation that Cook was hinting at for Q3 this year. But this is not a " wild card " — something too large to ignore but so improbable that it is not worth thinking about.