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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

To many, a modern meat plant might seem somewhat “shocking”, but to us this “automotive assembly plant operating in reverse” is common place and, in fact, we are not easily “shocked” by much of anything (for evidence of this you are welcome to view the video on our website).

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

Traditionally, antitrust regulation has looked for whether a merger increased or decreased competition in a particular market. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In stark contrast, the last four years have seen continued improvement in drone technology, much of which cannot be put to use. In Washington, business as usual.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business Review

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive.

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What the Big Mergers of 2017 Tell Us About 2018

Harvard Business Review

Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. AT&T was blocked from acquiring T-Mobile back in 2011 and Sprint and T-Mobile talked but couldn’t get a deal done this year. Carson Jimi Filipovski/Unsplash. What we watch. The remix in media took a similar path.

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We're Running Out of Resources, and It's Going to Be OK

Harvard Business Review

And current recycling technology is limited. At the same time, the automotive service industry currently employs 827,900 people , losing less than 100,000 jobs since its pre-recession peak in 2003. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0 The market has huge profit potential.