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Tackling Big Global Challenges with Low-Cost Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Digital platforms like Uber and Airbnb harness the power of the internet to offer a frictionless marketplace that powerfully matches supply and demand so as to make whole new sets of assets available to customers. The Global Digital Economy. To keep the rise of global temperatures below 1.5 dave wheeler FOR HBR. Insight Center.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

Compared to most oil-rich countries in the Middle East, Iran has a diversified economy, its tourism sector is on the verge of a major windfall, and threats to its political stability are in decline. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

It called for leveraging the profits of the global microfinance institution, and coupling them with private investments from the Allmans and their donor network. The Allmans' dream taught us that community development, powered in part by microfinance, accelerates Opportunity's impact on the communities we serve.

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Why Is Ukraine’s Economy Such a Mess?

Harvard Business Review

Ukraine has 45 million inhabitants, is the second-largest European country by land area (after the European parts of Russia and not counting the Asian parts of Turkey) and by all rights ought to be one of the continent’s major economic powers. And then finally, in some parts of Ukraine, tourism has been becoming more important.

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

For a country that isn’t export-oriented, and whose major industry, tourism, relies on stability, having its own currency is not much of a solution to economic woes. Although former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis made eloquent appeals about the need to rethink macro, he said very little about changing how the economy is run.