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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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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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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. And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone. The floods in Pakistan helped double the price of cotton.

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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. Because it takes an enormous amount of money to find a truly revolutionary technology or product.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The UK leads Europe in “app economy” jobs. billion as compared to $4.4