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What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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Will Greece Survive the Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

Second, by the end of January 2012, it must obtain further installments of the remaining 120 billion Euros of the bailout packages. Finally it must honor its commitment to elections on February 19, 2012. The new government has met with the cautious approval of the EU, the IMF, the markets and the international press.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

For every robust, time-tested measure of return on financial capital, we need another for social capital — the economic benefits that derive from cooperation among groups, and yet another for natural capital — the supply of natural ecosystems (think forests, oceans, mineral deposits) that we turn into valuable goods or services future.

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

For example, open-minded and curious CEOs create an entrepreneurial culture, driven and intense CEOs create a culture of results and achievement, and altruistic CEOs create a culture of empathy and cooperation. return on sales, return on assets, and market-to-book ratio) have been increasing with time , at least in the U.S.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk. For example, in 2012, Intel, TSMC, and Samsung — three large semiconductor manufacturers based in the U.S., Model 6: Cofunding of a third-party asset.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier.