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

Mills Scofield

At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world.

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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. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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Wells Fargo and the Slippery Slope of Sales Incentives

Harvard Business Review

In the early 1990s Sears sought to restore its reputation with $46 million in coupons because some employees of its automotive repair division (who were paid a commission on sales of parts and services) had allegedly enticed customers into authorizing and paying for needless repairs. Will eliminating sales goals do it?

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How New Technologies Push Us Toward the Past

Harvard Business Review

Thus, you can see our existing infrastructural assets, and the business processes supporting them, as information transfer proxies. Workers go to office buildings to gain access to files and communicate with co-workers—again, for information access and transfer processes. Those massive warehouses are much easier to automate.

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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. The causes vary for this epidemic of counter-productive interference, which is threatening a long and successful policy, at least in the U.S.,

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It's Time for Tenure to Lose Tenure

Harvard Business Review

Even the United Kingdom did away with tenure in the late 1980s when then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher implored the nation's colleges to become more productive. Tenure locks in big costs and makes it difficult for universities to explore more productive teaching techniques. For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S.