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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. Those that do look to leverage new technologies run into financial issues. Foreign-made farm technologies remain unappealing to farmers in Africa because they are cumbersome for those who control, on average, 1.6

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

It’s true of GDP. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. I was sitting there 18-and-a-half years, getting an extraordinary amount of advice from everybody under the sun. That is true of the unemployment rate. They are not.

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The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

If the movie had been set in another age, the advice to young Braddock would have been different. Today digital technology is all the rage because after decades of development it has become incredibly useful. To understand what’s happening, it helps to look at earlier technologies. First is the technology itself.

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Why President Kagame Runs Rwanda Like a Business

Harvard Business Review

Was that advice from people like Professor Porter? IT [information technology] was an area where I think the president and his team understood that this was not only good for citizens in general, and good to enable government and healthcare and education, but it also provided an area where Rwanda could build economic activity.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. New capital is still flowing to the clean tech — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and some other business leaders just announced a $1 billion fund to invest in “next generation energy technologies.”

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.