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Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: A Comprehensive Guide

HR Digest

Industry Percentage of Professionals with Flexible Hours Life Sciences 74 percent Supply Chain 69 percent The feasibility of flexible working may vary across industries, as shown in the table above. As a part of your diversity and inclusion policies, constantly evaluate how you can make the workspace adapt to the needs of your workers.

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How Retail Can Thrive in a World Without Stores

Harvard Business Review

To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising. When eyeglass maker Warby Parker launched in 2010, its founders had $2,500 seed funding and impressive business school pedigrees. billion valuation within five years.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

billion impressions on Twitter and Instagram and was the top trending topic in the U.S. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. during the assembly.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet.

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Operational Improvement Has Improved

Harvard Business Review

I see three forces behind this trend: 1. billion manufacturer of labels and office supplies, launched an internal online community in 2010 to improve collaboration and accelerate learning among its process improvement practitioners. But improvement has improved. Greater awareness and experience in improvement approaches.

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Why Today’s Corporate Research Centers Need to Be in Cities

Harvard Business Review

Midtown Atlanta is an example of the growing trend of companies relocating major research facilities to be near urban universities that provide mixed-use amenities, lively places, and a high density of firms. In the past, many large companies tended to innovate in isolation. And just recently, NCR, one of the largest U.S.

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.