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The EU Needs to Make Sure Continental Countries Don’t Exit

Harvard Business

The UK Treasury’s 200-page April 2016 report, blandly titled “The Long-Term Economic Impact of EU Membership and the Alternatives,“ seems a useful, well-executed benchmark. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? We always urge you to read the methodology carefully. Financial performance. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

TOC has fully developed methodologies for determining the right location of buffers in projects as well as in manufacturing. Such insights lead to a reassessment of the benchmarks set for capacity. References: [1] “Never Say I Know” and the Limitations of our (Reasonable) Knowledge , Eli Schragenheim (2016). [2]