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These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. Key resources can be categorized as follows: Physical, Intellectual, Human, Financial) Key Activities – by performing a number of Key Activities.

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Oil’s Fall Is a Challenge for Gulf Economies, but Also an Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

The price of this fast-track, oil-fueled development has been the region’s high dependence on oil export revenues (and in the case of Qatar, also of liquified natural gas, of which it is currently the largest producer in the world). Observers are right to be concerned. in 2015 and 3.2%

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Data: One Antidote to Risky Behavior

Harvard Business Review

Every large financial services company has instituted risk management, but that hasn't prevented risky behavior in the form of office politics and personality conflict — as the JP Morgan trading debacle has demonstrated. And the pricing models.". "Oh, But all too often, those safeguards are ignored. We can cover it.".

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Coping With Change in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Plastering Louis Vuitton''s LV or Gucci''s G all over their products was critical for those companies to earn premium prices. However, it would have been impossible to predict with any confidence the speed at which that shift would take place and how it would differ across markets. It''s different today. Be prepared to change course.

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It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

Commercial microfinance organizations are perhaps the best-known hybrid organizations, but social entrepreneurs now use hybrid models to address a diverse set of social issues that includes hunger, healthcare, economic development, environment, education, housing, culture, law, and politics.

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Peru's Innovation Drive

Harvard Business Review

After five years of heady growth in Peru, many experts say the country's economy will slow down sharply in the future because of political uncertainty. HDS charges fairly low prices. Interestingly, the hospital or doctors don't subsidize prices; they feel that might lead to a fall in service quality.

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GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain

Harvard Business Review

Those costs, coupled with an unmanageable risk of company-ending fines, imposed by bureaucrats who may be motivated more by politics than pragmatics, could transform the nature of digital interaction. If so, inevitably consumers will pay the price, directly and otherwise. GDPR, and calls for similar regulation in the U.S.,