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Featured Rascal: Mother Teresa

Chris Brady

        It was a courageous and wild decision, one that would throwher into hunger and doubt.         It was a courageous and wild decision, one that would throwher into hunger and doubt. I'm not sure I understand it.

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. To help develop a cleantech industry, the government should spend its money on fully incubated business models that have proven the ability to create a profit and that have demonstrated sustainable competitive advantage.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Therefore, they don’t fit into the current definition of a security, and are technically outside of traditional legal frameworks. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and many other regulatory bodies are still investigating them.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. Every bubble by definition deflates. It was the form in which the asset was financed. You can spot a bubble.