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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

The land reforms triggered a series of events that spiraled into a major economic crisis and caused formal unemployment to soar to 90%. Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. The ability to offer financing gave the technology vendor a point of differentiation that helped it beat its revenue projection for the year. Cross-pollinate your talent.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Frito-Lay has already made competition the cornerstone of its Super Bowl advertising , and Toyota , desperate to remind people what a wonderful corporate citizen it can be, invites aspiring innovators to suggest how the firm's technology can be used for good in unexpected ways. Think of them as part of the global supply chain.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

You may have heard that Europe is in a state of crisis. The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. Telecommunications, marketplace platforms, payment services, and postal and logistics systems are balkanized. How has Europe dealt with the situation? in Latin America.

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