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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. To fully enable a new vision of the future, organizations must make changes in five key business areas: Planning and Budgeting If organizations have easy access to—and indeed rely on—external talent, they can tackle new opportunities, experiment more nimbly, and operate in new areas.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

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This has been labelled the “second phase of global liquidity”, to differentiate it from the pre-crisis phase, which was largely centred on banks expanding their cross-border operations. This share was higher than during the pre-crisis period from 2005 to mid-2007. Policy responses matter too.