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New World Companies: The Future Of Capitalism

Strategy Driven

This may include strategies such as broadening networks, reducing transportation costs, and improving customer service. What has become known as distribution channel realignment is a crucial area in which companies can significantly enhance performance. Successful companies must develop globally if they hope to remain competitive.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

A transport company like TNT is a typical beneficiary of globalization. We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. During my time as CEO of TNT N.V. There is no doubt we benefited from this.

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Does Work Make You Happy? Evidence from the World Happiness Report

Harvard Business Review

The available categories cover many kinds of jobs, including being a business owner, office worker, or manager, and working in farming, construction, mining, or transport. This is the case across a variety of labor-intensive industries like construction, mining, manufacturing, transport, farming, fishing, and forestry. Related Video.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

Collectively, they're spawning a range of efficient new "as-a-service" business models in industries as diverse as accommodation, transportation, household appliances, and high-end clothing. The digitization of social brings real-world trust and social capital online.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy.