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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Returns management should be a major focus.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade. Do we need a new set of incentives that can help manage the internet's growth?

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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade. Do we need a new set of incentives that can help manage the internet's growth?

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. On the front pages of major U.S.