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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. with case studies of actually collaborations. All rights reserved.

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Luxury Brands Can No Longer Ignore Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Diana Verde Nieto, the founder of Positive Luxury and main author of the study, makes a compelling case that sustainability and social responsibility are no longer nice-to-have for luxury brands — they are now requirements. The report has some additional good case studies in the watch, leather, diamond, and eco-tourism realms.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business Review

electric utility sector, in which the existing model for energy generation, which has prevailed for a century, may now be giving way to a new one. We studied the sector for three years and came up with some very interesting findings about the “adjustment costs” that companies incur when they disrupt themselves.