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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call. Habitat has thereby transformed the nature and scale of its impact.

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Rethinking Sustainability in Light of the EU’s New Circular Economy Policy

Harvard Business Review

Our first example, JLG Industries, is a globally recognized manufacturer of lift equipment used in construction and maintenance. JLG jump-started its CE execution in 2013 by launching an asset management program, which established a predictable flow of used assets and justified investment in a scalable refurbishment facility.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.