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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Other companies known for their capabilities are similarly focused on building growth engines.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. The designer could run their designs through “visual recommendation engine” selvesware that offers bolder, more energetic styles based on their sketches and use cases. But why stop with industrial assets?

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If the U.S. Gets into a Trade War with the EU, It Will Lose an Ally in Pressuring China

Harvard Business

The primary tool of China’s industrial policy is subsidies to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) for key industries such as robotics, advanced computers, and electric vehicles. Instead, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis, China has expanded central planning ; 100,000 SOEs have been the principal engine of that expansion.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

For decades aircraft engine manufacturers focused on unit sales. In the 1960s UK manufacturer Bristol Siddeley introduced “power by the hour,” charging for safe, effective operations rather than individual aircraft engines and parts. Bristol’s acquirer, Rolls-Royce, upgraded this approach in the 1980s.

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