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The Entrepreneurial Odyssey: Benefits of Business Ownership

Business Consulting Agency

Building a business involves constant innovation, from conceptualizing unique solutions to market needs to developing groundbreaking products or services. Industries such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and software development are hubs of groundbreaking advancements.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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Why Mexico’s Economy Doesn’t Depend on the Next U.S. President

Harvard Business

When the region can’t meet new demands for lower costs, foreign companies up and move, taking the jobs with them. New Zealand is the world’s largest exporter of dairy products. Meanwhile, dairy farmers receive access to improved production methods and business practices. Expand into more products and industries.

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Why It’s So Hard to Train Someone to Make an Ethical Decision

Harvard Business

Take the decision of Sam Waksal, the former CEO of the emerging biotechnology company ImClone Systems. To appreciate how significant simply identifying an ethical dilemma is, consider the choice of Rajat Gupta, the former managing director of McKinsey & Company, to call a billionaire hedge fund trader after a Goldman Sachs board meeting.

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Why Boards Aren’t Dealing with Cyberthreats

Harvard Business

food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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So Many M&A Deals Fail Because Companies Overlook This Simple Strategy

Harvard Business

As we’ve written previously , the best path to accelerated growth with limited risk often comes from creating new products and services that leverage a company’s existing resources, customers, and capabilities. Gillette dominated the men’s shaving market with its Mach series of razors.

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