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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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Lobbyists Are Behind the Rise in Corporate Profits

Harvard Business Review

While a dynamic, competitive economy rewards innovative firms with high profits and punishes poor performers with low profits, sustained aggregate profits suggest, instead, that firms are able to get away with higher prices because competition is limited. If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth.

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41 First-Year Lessons from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Anyway, during my travels, I've kept a running list of observations, travel tips for those of you coming to Asia for either a short trip or an extended stay, and thoughts on innovation, all gleaned from my first year based here. If you ask Filipinos to do a skit as part of an innovation workshop, stand back; there is some real local talent.

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The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

” Digital communication was set to upend markets and change everything. This matters because prediction is an input to a host of activities including transportation, agriculture, healthcare, energy manufacturing, and retail. Once prediction became cheap, innovators reframed driving as a prediction problem.

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Obama Gave a Monumental Climate Change Speech, But It's Still Not Enough

Harvard Business Review

Attacking "other" greenhouse gases , those that can be much more powerful warming agents than CO2, such as methane (which comes from animals/farms, natural gas leaks, and landfills) and HFCs (the class of chemicals used in refrigerants). Talk about the need to price carbon so our markets can function correctly.