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4 Tips to Grow a Successful Bakery Business

Strategy Driven

According to the American Baker’s Association, bakers are responsible for over $153 billion of the country’s GDP. To ensure you get a sizeable nibble of that $153 billion, read on for four tips on how to grow a successful bakery business. Settle on a niche.

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3 Charts US Economists Want to Keep Secret

Coaching Tip

In fact, real GDP per person just dropped to its lowest level in more than 75 years ! Like Vanilla is used to make Chocolate. Despite new all-time highs in the stock market, US economic data is lagging.

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Markets: Understand the Present to Forecast the Future (Part 2)

Coaching Tip

After noticing the real GDP per person just dropped to its lowest level in more than 75 years, a major newspaper recently asked a slate of economists, "What's wrong with the economy?" Alexandra : Well, I know you're a busy guy, so thanks again for sitting down and chatting today. Steve : Thank you. .

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Reinhart, Rogoff, and How the Macroeconomic Sausage Is Made

Harvard Business Review

I couldn''t help but think back to that as controversy erupted this week over Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff''s oft-cited three-year-old finding that economic growth plummets when a country''s debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 90%. growth in countries with debt/GDP of more than 90%, they came up with 2.2%

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Morning Advantage: Robots!

Harvard Business Review

GDP growth isn’t actually all that good a predictor of income growth for ordinary working households." So even while GDP growth ticks anemically up in developed countries, workers don't feel better off. Social Media Tips from Tupperware (INSEAD Blog). TRICKLE DOWN PETERS OUT. Here's the rub," explains James Plunkett.

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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. The combination of higher food demand, stunted yield potential, and increasingly worse farmland must stimulate a redesigned agro-sector for assured food security. But most farmers are still only marginally improving yields.

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How the Digital Wind Farm Will Make Wind Power 20% More Efficient

Harvard Business Review

GE believes that the Industrial Internet could add $10 to $15 trillion to global GDP in efficiency gains over the next two decades. The data comes from dozens of sensors inside each turbine monitoring everything from the yaw of the nacelle, to the torque of the generator, to the speed of the blade tips.