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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business Review

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S., Early Struggles.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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The Time to Think About the 3D-Printed Future Is Now

Harvard Business Review

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Many of the new developments have to do with broadening the science underpinning additive manufacturing. Another promising development is multi-jet fusion.

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Starbucks, for example, has a strong presence because CEO Howard Schultz, deliberately developed a growth plan grounded in its capabilities. Where are the markets with opportunities?

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The Political Issues Board Directors Care Most About

Harvard Business Review

With the 2016 U.S. However, outside North America they tend to be more optimistic about emerging economies: 36% of directors in Asia, 24% of directors in Australia and New Zealand, and 23% of directors in Africa predict faster growth in emerging economies than in developed countries in the next three years.

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There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Harvard Business Review

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.

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What Neuroscience Reveals About Creating Better Leaders In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

A 2016 study published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology showed that leaders of either sex who had successfully managed to balance responsibility and manage stress showed the highest levels of testosterone and the lowest ones of cortisol in their group.