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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

One famous example is Volvo announcing in 2021 that from 2030 on, they would only sell fully-electric cars (phasing out combustion engines, including hybrids). . EU importers and non-EU producers of these inputs will be required to pay around 75 EUR per metric ton of CO2 emissions. The tax will be implemented in stages.

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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?