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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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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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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

Collectively, they're spawning a range of efficient new "as-a-service" business models in industries as diverse as accommodation, transportation, household appliances, and high-end clothing. Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to.

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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.

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The Great Collision

Harvard Business Review

We want education, healthcare, and transportation that works — but we're reluctant to pay the costs of these public goods. The funny thing is, the world has made explosive jumps forward to increased prosperity. When it comes to the bare-minimum building blocks of a functioning society, they're someone else's responsibility.

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The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China

Harvard Business Review

There’s also a saying in China: “The nail that sticks up is the nail that gets hammered down.” You could certainly apply that to the fateful photograph of Xi Jinping and the top technology CEOs — the one where Kalanick is out of the picture. ” Here is the takeaway.