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Stop Doing Low-Value Work

Harvard Business

Between January 2008 and February 2010, 8.8 Ask for help reducing your low-value work from your company’s productivity unit or information technology gurus. Another approach is to ask your clients if you can not do something, just the way retail store clerks now ask people if they really want their receipts.

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Deflation Will Return: Europe First, Then US; Global Supply Arbitrage

MishTalk

Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. Retail Sales Cost-Cutting, Competition, and Cannibalization Numerous retailers are cutting employees. Both manufacturing blue-collar jobs and most white-collar jobs have become global.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market is perhaps the purest expression of the blending of the digital and physical worlds of retail.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Revenue: $1.35B (2010). Communications, Media, and Technology. Retail and Consumer Products. Retail and Business Banking. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Website: [link]. Headquarters: New York, NY. Size: 3,000 employees. CEO: John P. OLIVER WYMAN HISTORY . Health and Life Sciences.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business

has created no net new jobs for those whose highest educational level is a high-school degree (or less) since the job market bottomed out in 2010, but it has created 4 million jobs for people with a bachelor’s degree. Trump knows how to use the bully pulpit to press this kind of thinking on all big-box retailers and big distributors.