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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. It is important to have these answers before starting a small business. Having a solid ground of reasoning behind your idea. Choose Your Business Structure Wisely.

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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. First, large index asset managers, such as Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard.

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It's Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement

Harvard Business Review

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. It has created tremendous value and still drives competitive advantage in many companies and industries. So should we abandon continuous improvement? Absolutely not!

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

Note that essential experts typically don’t want to manage others; they only want to manage themselves. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations. Competitive compensation is table stakes for these folks.