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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea.

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Deep Dive into Customer Segmentation (Part 1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

It is a critical step towards identifying growth opportunities in business and should be carried out before undertaking any of the following actions: Developing customized marketing programs (e.g. Demographic segmentation divides a market through variables such as age, gender, education level, family size, occupation, income, and more.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

As companies continue to expand into new markets, the makeup of the workforce in our companies and communities served is becoming more diverse. Leadership is a system increasingly influenced by technology and consists of the leader, followers, the situation, and time (Sosik & Jung, 2018).

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The Cantillon Effect

Tom Spencer

Below we will take a brief look at the mainstream view of macroeconomics, the nature of the Cantillon Effect, and how it leads to predictable – and some would say ‘unjust’ – enrichment of certain groups in a society at the expense of others. Mainstream Economics: Keynesianism. trillion over the last 5 months.

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How Regulation Could Help Cryptocurrencies Grow

Harvard Business

Ignorance may be bliss for some, but ask anyone in commerce or finance, and they will make it abundantly clear: Ignorance is risk. markets embrace reasonable regulation to ensure transparency and fairness. market, fraudsters might push out the good actors. Alexander Baumann/The International Photo Co./Getty Getty Images.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

While it sometimes seems that everyone wants to get into the top 3 strategy consulting firms McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain & Company (Bain), also known as MBB , it's worth noting that there are several other top consulting firms that can give a career a real boost. Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company.

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business

In fact, the percentage of millennials with full-time careers is rising at a brisk clip from 45% in 2016 to 66% in 2018, according to the data we collected. In our 2018 EY Growth Barometer, an annual global survey of middle market company leaders, we found some movement away from part-time and gig hiring. 3: Gig is better.

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