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How to Organize Seamless Business Trips in 2020

Strategy Driven

One of the perks of working in a large company, with several senior responsibilities, is that it’s often left to you to travel to different destinations in order to hammer out contracts, seal deals, check up on suppliers, or help with your distribution network. Which methods of transport, in which classes, are you able to use?

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

However, although their members can rent the (more urbane and green) Zipcar fleet by the hour and pick up their vehicle at a local parking space using a smartphone app, this is still a dedicated fleet, still inventory that the company has to acquire, manage and monetize.

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The Industrial Revolution That Never Was

Harvard Business Review

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge.

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The Long Road to “You’re Hired!”

Harvard Business Review

Don't Drink Your Own Kool-Aid A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure of the Start-Up that Was Going to Change the World Fast Company Better Place was the car-battery start-up that was going to revolutionize transportation until it didn''t. might similarly manage a delicate dance with the oceans.

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