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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. Tariff barriers.

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Saudi Arabia’s New Economic Reforms: A Concise Explainer

Harvard Business Review

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. In addition, it has to contend with vast, inherited industries, and education- and labour-market structures that will take many years to reform. The timing for these reforms is no accident.

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Great Companies Stay True to the Spirit of Their Founders

Harvard Business Review

To make everybody happy, to serve every need, to hedge every bet, many CEOs spread resources around democratically as their companies grow — and they lose the spikiness on the cost sheet that is the telltale sign not of profligacy but of focus. And I want my marketing guys fighting for new variants, new products.