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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Case Study: How Do You Compete with a Goliath?

Harvard Business Review

“It feels weird eavesdropping like this,” Alejandra Chirinos told Ricardo Rodriguez, her marketing VP, and Miguel Martinez, her head of sales. Soledad Orellana, the market research consultant who’d arranged the session, concurred. Ricardo chuckled. “They know they’re being watched,” he said.

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Case Study: Should You Rehire Someone Who Left for a Competitor?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Ram had led the technical analysis and design teams for their residential and commercial real estate projects, and Hari had overseen the small team of civil engineers in the field.

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Case Study: Play it Safe at Home, or Take a Risk Abroad?

Harvard Business Review

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Yes, sir, I was worried about that, too — market saturation. And I think there's a market that you should consider: Mexico." Aubrey nodded. I've read about it.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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Solving Facebook's Customer Advocacy Challenge, and Yours

Harvard Business Review

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. For the most part, they haven't yet developed the skills necessary to build such genuine engagement. Here are some of the possibilities for Facebook advocacy apps.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. In researching and testing these commonalities, we developed a new management framework for effective cross-sector partnerships, and a clear method for measuring success.

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