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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

Last week, LDK Solar , a struggling Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers and panels, announced that it had missed $24 million in bond payments. This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment.

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds. The traditional plan-then-do model treats the value of any strategy like a bond. When volatility is high, however, strategic decisions should be treated more like call options.