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How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems

Harvard Business Review

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. By 2014, the academy comprised over 3,000 videos on subjects from mathematics to art history. How did Sal Khan finance his venture?

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages. Mnangagwa’s first actions in office underscore how important he views economic recovery.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.” It intends to open two more warehouses and add 300 more employees in 2014.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994. of Apple’s buybacks reported thus far for fiscal 2014. I disagree with this priority. That’s just 2.1%

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. utility sector.