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Small Firms Shifting Horizons As A Result Of Brexit

The Horizons Tracker

It shows clear attempts to move exports away from EU markets to elsewhere in the world. The data showed that the smallest exporters were shifting up to 46% of their export growth from the EU to other markets since the referendum in 2016, with slightly larger firms shifting around 19% of their exports. Gravity defying.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

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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. Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids.

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. Where are the markets with opportunities? In April 2016, it filed for bankruptcy.

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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. Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ.

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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.

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Rethinking Your Supply Chain in an Era of Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point. A shift toward protectionism. Census Bureau data.