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

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Business Has Changed, and Even Washington Has Noticed

Harvard Business Review

I would go even further to contend that multinational corporations— more than governments, and more than NGOs and nonprofits—have the human and financial capital, technology, international footprint, power of markets, and financial motivation to solve the world’s most daunting problems.

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A Yahoo Break-Up Could Be the Start of Lots of Splits

Harvard Business Review

Bayer divested its chemicals and materials businesses and ended up a pharmaceutical and crop-science giant. At the same time, the two firms put their consumer health-care businesses into a new joint venture. This refocusing is often the other side of the coin in an acquisition strategy.

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10 Sustainable Business Stories Too Important to Miss

Harvard Business Review

The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., In addition, electric and hybrid cars are about 4% of US auto sales now, a doubling of market share in the last couple of years. We’re very early in this journey, but SASB produced the first set of guidelines for one sector (health care).

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Case Study: Can One Business Unit Have 2 Revenue Models?

Harvard Business Review

First one and then two companies took aim at each unit’s market, aggressively selling products at lower prices. When a team of Nobel Prize–winning scientists had launched Siiquent, they’d been ready and willing to sell the company’s gene-based diagnosis technology to all comers. There seemed little point.