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When the Jobs Go Away, They Take Your DNA

Harvard Business Review

Clean Up Your Subcontracts 4 Tips for Business to Ensure Ethical, Slavery-Free Supply Chains The Guardian It may not seem like a topic for a listicle, but this quick rundown of what businesses need to keep in mind to avoid exploiting vulnerable people – and becoming embroiled in often well-deserved PR nightmares — is entirely useful.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures. An HBR Management Puzzle.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

Instead of passive subscribers, it created “communities of friends” who generated new story ideas and collaborated with Fast Company staff to develop themes of the “new management revolution.”. Meanwhile, they’re pragmatic enough to engineer ways for people to gain some direct personal benefits along the way.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

To this day, I get excited about seeing Subaru’s new products and learning about the engineering that went into making them. But the majority of the business owners I know prefer to manage risks by minimizing them or bypassing them entirely. If you want to open a bakery, it helps if you have a passion for baking.

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Ocado Is Transforming Online Grocery Shopping with AI, But A Skills Challenge Lies Ahead - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM OCADO 

Harvard Business Review

This has been our experience at Ocado, a leading online-only grocery retailer, as we’ve embedded AI across our technology estate. The technology that powers this revolutionary solution is designed and built in-house, and we are now making this platform available to large brick-and-mortar grocery retailers around the world.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Statistics Tree: Understanding Figures and What They Symbolize, Relating Directly to Your Business Success

Strategy Driven

That 2% includes all the doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers… those of us who actually advise. 92% of all business mistakes may be attributed to poor management decisions. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters.

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We Can’t Always Control What Makes Us Successful

Harvard Business Review

It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. These tools are especially attractive to retail and service companies because they have so many employees and such high turnover, which means they are hiring all the time. Human resources Information & technology Talent management'