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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

This focus on short-term challenges neglects the development of essential management and leadership skills. Work Based Learning Lead, phs group I know more about budgeting, about innovation, about how to manage the finance side of a business, I know more about commerciality and strategy.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

They’re also among the most profitable (the top five companies make up for 15% of the index’s total market capitalization), and the fastest growing (their market capitalization has grown this year by 23.3% Whole Foods Market. compared to weighted average of 5.2% of all the companies in the index). Consumer Goods.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.”

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business Review

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. That is the paralysis we are seeing in telecommunications, in e-commerce, and across the broad ICT sector. The elite global technology firms typically offer better solutions at zero cost.

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Corporate China's Succession Struggles

Harvard Business Review

Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker. Clearly, Chinese executives have no choice but to grow up quickly and develop effective "succession plans with Chinese characteristics.".

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities.