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Why Reducing Stress Stabilises Your Profits

Tom Spencer

The American Institute of Stress in 2014 estimated that around $300 billion is lost each year in America due to stress related absenteeism and health costs. His aim is to help small businesses professionalise by filling in the missing gaps that are holding them back, whether marketing or administration, sales or bookkeeping.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. This is a subtle but important distinction.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

per year between 1987 and 2014. Store managers linked more stable schedules with a decrease in thefts and an increase in the orderliness of stock, which decrease “phantom stock-outs” (when a customer is told an item is out of stock when it in fact is just out of place). Our estimate is that Gap earned $2.9

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