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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While there are many risks and obstacles involved in being an innovation leader – producing products not supported by the current infrastructure, creating more waste than recycling, and the high cost and limited capacity of existing energy storage methods – these problems also represent opportunities for innovation and growth.

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Two Ways to Break into India’s Consumer Market

Harvard Business

While India is the fastest growing major economy in the world today, some foreign companies are still struggling to enter the market there. However, recent developments have opened new doors for consumer product companies to expand their presence and sales in India, at much lower risks. Drop product prices and boost volume growth.

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Blockchain Startup 101: A blue print for launching a successful blockchain-based startup

Tom Spencer

You need to do some market research and a few back-of-the-envelope calculations to determine the size of the target market, whether there is sufficient demand for the solution, and how much potential customers may be willing to pay. They created a product or service which solved a problem that no body cared enough about.

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Tariffs Are the Wrong Way to Fight Unfair Trade Practices

Harvard Business

Those subsidies stimulate excess production, depress market prices, and enable SOE-produced products to capture market share beyond accepted norms of competition. of China’s aluminum production, the tariffs will neither reduce China’s global exports of these metals nor constrain its SOEs.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. That doesn’t mean that you should stop delivering your current products or services. Rethink the role of partnerships in your business model.

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The Brattle Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In 2013, the New York office was established, providing a home base in one the most important finance and legal markets in the world. Intellectual property. Product liability. The Brattle Group focuses on electric power, financial institutions, natural gas, petroleum, telecommunications and media, and transportation.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business

Inherently, digital printing’s “additive” manufacturing process promises to be less costly than more conventional “subtractive” manufacturing techniques — think about printing something layer by layer instead of milling a block of material into a final product. trillion in inventories held by U.S.