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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

Recent projects included developing a human resource strategy for a business in Uruguay that provides road accident prevention and risk management services, and organizing the financial records for a Chilean company that makes reusable shopping bags.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Data scientists in business process algorithmization scenarios are project managers. In such fast-changing learning environments, project and program managers can’t always know whether they will get better results from retraining people or retraining algorithms. Data scientists here facilitate.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of corporate strategic development need to analyze all of these considerations and be prepared for disruption to ripple through many functions — not just product development and manufacturing, but also finance, tax, legal, human resources, and IT. IP piracy will be another major complication.

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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

Our human resources department takes care of that. We have annual sales projections. Once the PR crisis passes, things will get back to normal. Can’t change the weather or the world. So, why bother trying to change anything else. That’s just the way he-she is. Learn to live with it. We’re afraid of litigation.

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