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Unlocking the Potential of Less Than Truckload (LTL) Freight Shipping: Strategies for Efficiency and Cost Management

Strategy Driven

How items are packed can significantly reduce the likelihood of damage, ensuring that products arrive at their destination in pristine condition and reducing the rate of returns or insurance claims. The LTL sector will remain crucial in the global supply chain machinery.

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The Economic Consequences Of COVID-19 Could Last Decades

The Horizons Tracker

. “If the trends play out similarly in the wake of COVID-19—adjusted to the scale of this pandemic—the global economic trajectory will be very different than was expected only a few weeks ago,” the authors say. ” Depressed rate of return. Investment opportunities.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

The report consists of responses from an unparalleled participant pool of 13,124 global leaders and 1,528 human resource executives within 2,031 participating organizations. Access the full report here, The Global Leadership Forecast (GLF) 2014 | 2015, Ready-Now Leaders: Meeting Tomorrow’s Business Challenges.

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The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable

Harvard Business Review

To minimize empty seats, airlines have enrolled in Global Airline Alliances (GALs) such as Oneworld, Star Alliance, and so on to at least make the carrier portion of the revenue for that passenger and monetize that seat. Starting in the early 1990s, Southwest stock delivered among the best rates of return in the history of American business.

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Should Companies Retain "Strategic" Cash?

Harvard Business Review

Politicians have claimed that retaining cash balances is hurting the global economy—even characterizing the practice as unpatriotic —and many investors have argued that excess cash rightfully should be returned to shareholders through dividend payments or share repurchases. How Should You Approach Strategic Cash?

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Even for Companies, the U.S. Is Split Between Haves and Have-Nots

Harvard Business Review

companies have enjoyed supernormal rates of return. And even if some firms have been stuck at the top of supposedly dynamic industries (Microsoft, Apple) for a rather long time, others have used innovation to rise rapidly (Facebook, Twitter). An increasing number of U.S. This underinvestment has a real cost to U.S.

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Two Forces Moving Business Closer to Climate Action

Harvard Business Review

Last week, “ The Better Growth, Better Climate ” report from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate exploded the myth that we have to choose between building a prosperous, expanding economy and doing it in a way that protects our shared home and resource base (also called the planet). We citizen consumers need to step up, too.

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