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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. First, small businesses tend to be more productive than larger ones and may be especially unlikely to invest in risk management that diverts resources from production. Make risk a strategic priority.

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Strengthen Your Workforce Through Volunteer Programs

Harvard Business Review

Corporate volunteer programs range from one-day community service activities to mini-sabbaticals that send top performers to developing countries to lend their expertise to nonprofit organizations and proven entrepreneurs. Such volunteer assignments can do more than inject excitement into a humdrum job; they can ignite a career.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

It may do to physical goods what cloud computing is now doing to digital services; what the PC, internet, and smart mobility have done to personal computing; and what outsourcing did to software development and business processing — take mass distribution and innovation to the next level while realigning the very geography of work and trade.

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The Big Picture of Business – Biggest Excuses They Use… and You Should Avoid: Rationales and Reasons Why Businesses Fail

Strategy Driven

We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Our human resources department takes care of that. We have annual sales projections. We make a good product… that should be enough. Why must we spend time on things other than our core business? Can’t change the weather or the world.