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

Harvard Business Review

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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The Global Banking Leaders of the Future

Harvard Business Review

On one hand, regardless of current economic concerns, emerging markets are where long-term growth opportunities lie. On the other, the crisis in the euro zone has forced banks to rethink their investments in numerous markets, if not retreat from them altogether. Emerging market players. Filling the Gap.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States. based labor. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. We can have engineering work more closely with production. But these suppliers became competitors and ever-harder to work with.

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Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. The Social-Engineer Toolkit , a cyber version of the Anarchist Cookbook , openly provides tools and techniques for launching attacks and engaging in other malevolent behavior (though it''s also a useful tool for the security community).

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