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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

Within weeks there was $50 billion in business deals involving foreign companies, including the Airbus agreement (worth $25 billion) to sell 118 planes, and Italy’s state rail company’s $5 billion pact to develop the local rail network. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, remaining U.S.

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. This might include banks, advocacy groups, travel agencies, hotel companies and more.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.