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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Aldi offers not just low prices, but convenience.

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How Walmart Can Start Competing Online

Harvard Business Review

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.”

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. Eventually, feeling it had no other option, the company adopted a low-cost strategy on the outside: last-minute price-cutting. Were we a price cutter? Chaos ensued. An innovator?

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How to Understand the EU-U.S. Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

Until now, the EU had hoped to drive down prices for DSL-based Internet services by forcing network providers to open their facilities at discounted prices to new entrants. and EU policy on their five most relevant characteristics — investment, availability, competition, adoption and price. Availability.

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What a Bipartisan Approach to U.S. Health Care Could Look Like

Harvard Business Review

In many markets, there is only one main provider, at the most two, and they shadow-price each other, meaning they make sure prices charged to insurance companies are similar. What’s more, the primary insurer in each state dictates insurance coverage rates no matter what prices they negotiate with health care providers.

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Rethinking Sustainability in Light of the EU’s New Circular Economy Policy

Harvard Business Review

They usually run into at least one of four barriers: They lack access to used products, they aren’t able to refurbish or recycle used products in a cost-effective way, their products are not designed with circularity in mind, and their customers discount the value of refurbished or remanufactured products.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. While the price of Ether has been rising , Bitcoin has dropped 20% to $1,000 dollars from a record $1,290 on March 3, 2017. Insight Center.