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What Amazon’s HQ2 Wish List Signals About the Future of Cities

Harvard Business

Amazon’s big announcement that it will build a second headquarters has caught the attention of local officials, economic development professionals, and pundits across the U.S. The city that lands this historic deal will see its economic and physical landscape transformed, albeit for a hefty price tag in the form of tax breaks.

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Consultant Ninja: New Vault.com FAIL: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

But the economic downturn hasn’t shelved expansion plans for career Web site Vault.com, which on Tuesday, June 23, unveiled a multimillion-dollar revamp." - Workforce Mangement.com Vault.com Traffic Popularity, from Alexa.com. By slapping the beta tag on the website they bought themselves another year to clean up this sacrilege.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

Many of our current economic measurements saw their birth in the Industrial Age when the companies that were growing and shaping the world were giants with big physical plants and lots of material products — companies like Exxon Mobile and GE. It’s not an industry in itself. Service Providers use people to offer services.

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Blockchain for Supply Chain – Insights from Berlin

Tom Spencer

It really started to intrigue me because it’s at the intersection of economics and technology with an unexpected motivation coming from social philosophy. There are many reasons, but the most prominent are that: It’s a high pace, and high growth environment. And that’s when I decided to move from Zurich to Berlin.

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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business

This in turn boosted development by allowing relatively poor farmers to reliably send and receive payments at affordable rates, fostering economic growth by lowering transaction costs. All the goods flowing in and out of developing world countries could be tagged.

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Nonprofit Mergers & Alliances: An interview with Thomas A. McLaughlin (part one)

The Nonprofit Consultant

The following is part one of our talk: Ken Goldstein: You certainly make a strong case for mergers and alliances as a strategy for growth, cost containment, reaching a sustainable size, and simply surviving in these times. Tags: alliances Nonprofit collaboration interview books mergers. Tom McLaughlin: Oh, sure, absolutely.

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Why Marketing Analytics Hasn’t Lived Up to Its Promise

Harvard Business

However, data grows on its own terms, and this growth is often driven by IT investments, rather than by coherent marketing goals. Requests should be centralized, and then prioritized by a) whether the findings have the potential to change the way things are done and b) the economic consequences of such changes.