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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India. And though the idea of VCs abandoning cleantech has been around since at least early 2012 , I was initially skeptical. First, another recent Brookings analysis found that U.S. never put a price on carbon.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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When an Activist Hedge Fund Thinks a Company’s Salaries Are Too High, Who’s Right?

Harvard Business Review

Its IPO in 1999 was a sensation ; by autumn 2000 its market capitalization topped $65 billion and the ratio of its stock price to the next year’s projected earnings was a staggering 483. Its high-end Internet routers were gaining share on market-leader Cisco, and the sky was the limit. Finance Tech industry Technology'

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