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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

There are three very common shiny objects that derail customer success efforts in the early stage: Process improvements to issue routing, issue classification, and automated responses seem reasonable. Your priority is growth, and that’s driven by selling, not by customer success or renewal… yet. Don’t do it.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. Today, US firms have less than 2% of market share in the multi-billion automotive lithium-ion battery industry.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

However, new tariffs or more-restrictive rules of origin would likely only fall on a few industries, such as the automotive sector. Companies would like to see process improvements and better infrastructure at the border to reduce costs to import.