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1. hbr.org › 2019 › 01Cracking Frontier Markets - Harvard Business Review

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   Experts often assume that frontier economies are so underdeveloped that they can’t support consumer-facing businesses—yet hundreds of companies have proved the conventional wisdom wrong...

2. www.weforum.org › agenda › 2021Making sense of frontier risks and identifying early warning ...

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   Jun 21, 2021 · Frontier risks are characterized by unknown likelihood/unknown impacts – they may carry small signals, forecasting larger, more unpredictable disasters. In order to deal with future disruptions more effectively we must address why decision makers so often fail to prepare for these risks.

3. www.weforum.org › stories › 2014What does freedom in business mean to you ... - World ...

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   Jan 24, 2014 · The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no political, partisan or national interests.

4. hbr.org › 2009 › 07The New Frontiers - Harvard Business Review

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   They’re innovating and improving operations aggressively, while their governments implement policies that will change the game of business.

5. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullProfit Efficiency as a Measure of Performance and Frontier ...

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   Jun 9, 2020 · The frontier methodology allows us to estimate the efficient frontier (in this case of profits) and to understand performance beyond a mere comparison with profitability or financial performance, since it evaluates the performance of a firm in relation to the efficiency frontier.

   • Author: Antonio Arbelo Álvarez, Marta Arbelo Pérez, Pilar Pérez Gómez

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6. journals.aom.org › doi › fullCorporate Foresight: A New Frontier for Strategy and Management

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   This article introduces the construct of corporate foresight to a strategy and management scholars’ audience. Corporate foresight is a dynamic, firm-level capability that allows firms to evaluate future scenarios of the business environment, including systematic doomsday collapses.

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   What role did the frontier play in modern business?

   • The young Wisconsin professor was describing the role that the frontier had played for three centuries in creating the American nation, but the Turner thesis applies to modern business, too. Over the past three decades, the borders of the corporate world have constantly shifted as developing countries opened their economies to foreign businesses.

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   Is the efficient frontier common for all firms?

   • The traditional frontier models consider that all the firms in an industry share the same technology; that is to say, there is no heterogeneity between them and, therefore, it is assumed that the efficient frontier is common for all firms.

   Profit Efficiency as a Measure of Performance and Frontier Models: A

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   What is the efficiency frontier methodology?

   • The frontier methodology allows us to estimate the efficient frontier (in this case of profits) and to understand performance beyond a mere comparison with profitability or financial performance, since it evaluates the performance of a firm in relation to the efficiency frontier.

   Profit Efficiency as a Measure of Performance and Frontier Models: A

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   What is a profit Frontier function?

   • Regarding the profit frontier function, we specify two outputs, operating revenue and other operating revenues, and four inputs (resources necessary to obtain the revenue of the firms). These inputs include the number of full-time equivalent employees, total spending on materials, other operating expenses and physical capital.

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   Why do we use frontier models?

   • Pearson correlation coefficients. By specifying the inefficiency effects function, frontier models also allow us to incorporate, in a single stage estimation procedure, a hypothesis test about the sources of competitive advantage.

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   Are emerging-market giants looking at frontier economies?

   • Summary. With emerging-market giants such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China experiencing slowdowns, investors, entrepreneurs, and multinationals are looking elsewhere. They’ve been eyeing frontier economies such as Nigeria and Pakistan with great interest—and enormous trepidation.

   Cracking Frontier Markets: Lessons from Companies That Have Done It …

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8. www.forbes.com › sites › stevedenningWhat 21st Century Management Looks Like - Forbes

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   Sep 20, 2020 · While there is a growing consensus as to what good 21 st century management looks like, as well as a recognition that Agile isn’t the only path to achieve it, it is striking to see how many big...