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JULY 14, 2017

Article Friday, July 14, 2017 Trade is evolving. Are countries and companies keeping up? Are top executives, business decision makers, and policymakers adapting to new trade realities?

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

At the end of the 19th century, New York City stank. One hundred fifty thousand horses ferried people and goods through the streets of Manhattan, producing 45,000 tons — tons! — of manure a month. It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis.

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BCG

JULY 14, 2017

Focus Friday, July 14, 2017 Growing in the mature and competitive insurance marketplace is hard work, but it is still possible with a transformational mindset.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. When asked about an opponent’s plan for their impending fight, former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson once said: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” It is a school of thought now fashionable in entrepreneurship circles. Advocates of “learning by doing” approaches such as the lean startup say it is better to act, improvise, and pivot than to waste time and resources on a 20-page plan that won’t survive f

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2017

The consumer has all but thrown in the towel as retail sales unexpectedly declined for the second month. The Econoday consensus was for a weak bounce to +0.1% but sales came in at -0.2%. Revisions did take May from -0.3% to -0.1% so sales were essentially flat for the last two months. (more…).

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2017

The Fed G17 report shows Industrial Production is up 0.4% this month, but the manufacturing component weighted at about three-fourths of the total has been barely growing for some time. The Fed revised May from flat to +0.1 and April from +1.1 to +0.8. The Econoday consensus was for 0.3% growth. Mining is once again the highlight of an otherwise soft industrial production report.

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BCG

JULY 14, 2017

Article Friday, July 14, 2017 To maintain its current growth trajectory, the global fashion industry must address its environmental and social footprint.

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2017

Adding to silly Commerce Department reporting of “auto sales”, today we learn business inventories were up 0.3%, led by autos up 1.1%. The rise in inventories matched the Econoday consensus estimate. (more…).

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 14, 2017

It doesn't matter what your privacy policy says, it doesn't matter when your quarterly results are due and it doesn't matter what the database is telling you. If someone doesn't want to hear from you anymore, you've lost the ability to reach them. Yes, you can go back to trying to interrupt them, but of course, that's getting more and more expensive.

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JULY 14, 2017

Today the BLS reported the CPI was flat. The Econoday consensus was for a 0.1% rise. Over the last five months, the CPI is -0.1%. Over the last four months, the CPI is -0.2%. (more…).

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

After the heated rhetoric of last November’s U.S. presidential election, Interpublic (IPG), my company’s parent corporation, held its first open call for employees to talk about concerns related to respect in the workplace. IPG wanted to reinforce its commitment to inclusion. People called in anonymously from five continents. What struck me most was how many people talked about feeling unsafe as a result of the political atmosphere.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

The success of platform companies like Airbnb, Amazon, and Netflix has led to envy bordering on despair for their competitors. When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” the response was “You don’t.” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Almost 20 years have passed since the corporate world woke up to long-term problems in computer code, which became known as Y2K. Over the previous decades, software developers had used the date 01-01-00 (January 1, 2000) as a convenient hack to make it easier to debug software. The problem was that it wasn’t taken out. So as 2000 loomed, there was a realization that, when the clocks hit midnight, software all over the world could simply stop running.

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