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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Fashions, fads, trends, role models, and influential personalities. Education levels.

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Investors Today Prefer Companies with Fewer Physical Assets

Harvard Business

The traditional asset-heavy corporations that used to be at the top of everybody’s most-admired lists are starting to look old-fashioned, slow-moving, and inflexible — particularly to investors. You’ll notice that the finance industry is included in this group as well. Thus, they have low PPE but high multiples.

Company 28
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How Multinationals Can Adapt to a Political Mood That Doesn’t Care for Them at All

Harvard Business

Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient. The business model in which intellectual property is used will need to be tailored to the regulations and political imperatives of the countries where it is deployed.