Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

It uses two currencies, the convertible Peso (CUP) valued on par with the dollar and fully tradeable, and the Cuban Peso (CUC) valued at a rate of 24:1 with the dollar, which creates severe constraints for the development of Cuba’s export sector. This effectively means that these wages are overvalued by as much as 2400%.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

In a similar vein, Google announced last year that it was supporting the Endangered Languages Project , an initiative to allow people to share resources and information about languages on the verge of extinction. Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Finally, venture philanthropists are willing to invest in projects like Khan’s that can reach millions of people with a modest amount of money.

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Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Marketing professionals have learned the hard way that no matter what they do or do not plan to do with consumer information, privacy matters. In part, that''s because marketing has always been something of a black art. One way or the other, marketing executives should keep a close eye on how the Google Glass story plays out.

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Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

At this point, the commercial viability of a market-based approach to providing good quality housing in urban areas at prices affordable to low income customers is beyond question. This development plan can be scaled to build 3 million or 30 million units per year, if needed. The entire thing isn't unlike putting together giant Legos.

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Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

As late as 1700, the fact of being an island continued to dominate England’s relationship with Europe, and the fleet was used primarily to keep French invaders out of England while projecting English power into the continent. The story of how this system broke down is well known.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Founded by entrepreneur Ben Kaufman, Quirky developed a platform that connected the company with outside inventors and project contributors. We have interviewed Quirky executives and studied each of the company’s product offerings, publicly available product reviews, and their development process.

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