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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout. percent over the ten years of the construction bubble, while loans to developers constituted nearly 50 percent of national output by 2007. By March 2012 unemployment was 24.1

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The greening of the supply chain. Right now, the U.S.

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Innovation Is as Much About Finding Partners as Building Products

Harvard Business Review

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more.