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What Companies Have Learned from Losing Billions in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

In contrast, in 2010 in Borneo Churchill Mining lost the right to use land it had purchased and spent $40 million surveying when Indonesia decentralized its government and a local authority changed the rules. Given the conflicts that have roiled the country in recent years, his company deemed both the political and regulatory risks too great.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. Wulf noted that Ma studied Jack Welch’s approach and was inspired by GE’s decentralized decision-making. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S. This felt like the change we needed.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

They represent content and digital rights management platforms (such as SingularDTV ), distributed venture funds (such as the the DAO , for decentralized autonomous organization), and even new platforms to make investing in ICOs and managing digital assets easy (such as ICONOMI ). ” Others are sure to follow suit.