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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Kind regards, Ian 22 March Dear all, First, some breaking news: the winner of CMI's Management Book of the Year 2022 competition is… The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions by Simon Fanshawe ( Kogan Page ). We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here !

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The Silent Killer of New Products: Lazy Pricing

Harvard Business Review

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

Disruption to supply chains will mean reduced output and shortages will send prices soaring. Profits that are received at some future point are discounted by the real cost of finance and any appropriate risk premium. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point.

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