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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. These trends will require oil producers to shift their focus away from transportation and diversify towards innovative petrochemical products to capture market share in diverse end uses such as clothing and construction materials. The soaring U.S.

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Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places: Memo to the President

Harvard Business Review

In your address last night, Mr. President, you correctly noted that, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation." Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. In other words, Mr. President, everything depends upon start-ups: Job creation.

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The Global Banking Leaders of the Future

Harvard Business Review

Recent headlines have been foreboding, highlighting concerns that the retrenchment could leave the most promising engines of global economic growth sputtering. Lending from Europe remained flat, and the gap was filled from elsewhere — largely Asian offshore centers and the U.K. Filling the Gap.