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The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010

Harvard Business Review

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. So most natural resources are getting more scarce, from oil to metals to crops.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

billion in 2018, roughly half the world’s population. Yet even as we connect people and the world’s population rises 7 percent between 2010 and 2020, the number of working-age employees will actually decline in many industrialized nations. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015.

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How Discrimination Against Female Doctors Hurts Patients

Harvard Business Review

In August 2018 officials from Tokyo Medical University admitted to systematically altering medical school admission test scores to disadvantage female applicants. The percentage of enrollees who were women had reached 40% in 2010, and now stands at approximately 30%.). James Boast/Getty Images. For example, one study of over 1.5

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. As it is, software developers in a UK tech startup earned about 26% more than the industry average and those in sales and development in the UK earned 12% more than the industry average – making the country one of the more expensive locations to launch a venture.