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Starting a Business for the Post-Pandemic World

Strategy Driven

Some companies that started out doing something entirely different include: Nintendo – This video game manufacture began as a playing card company and also ran a taxi company, food company, TV network, and hotel chain. Marriot Hotels – Began as a street-side root beer stand. Inescapably, though, it always comes eventually.

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Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy

Harvard Business Review

They leverage a whole range of services — from the logistics of parcel carriers like UPS to customer analytics software and social media marketing — to build a new business with extremely high customer satisfaction rates. Warby Parker offers prescription eyeglasses over the Internet at $99 a pair in dozens of attractive styles.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

InterContinental Hotels Group. Hilton Hotels & Resorts. United Parcel Service. Biotech & Pharma. Oil & Gas. Travel & Tourism. Burberry Group. Whole Foods Market. Travel & Tourism. Marriott International. Travel & Tourism. Technology. Biotech & Pharma. Online Retail. General Motors. Automotive.