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...While not quite as famous as the other Jimmy Stewart, the author is without a doubt one of the most revered business journalists of his generation....
...This is not a normal business cycle downturn. As such, the normal dynamics do not apply....
...As one staffer puts it to me, “If you come to Darpa and don’t invent the internet, you get a B.”...
...Grocers have been slow to adapt to e-groceries because the prospect places them in a catch-22: offer online orders and lose money on each sale, or refuse to offer the service and see a chunk of your business...
...It is often thought that small business owners toil away in the misguided belief that their company is destined to become the next mega-corporation....
...A leaflet pitched the opportunity to workers as a chance to be “exposed” to other areas of Amazon’s business....
...Maybe you could talk about this both from a broader banking perspective and specifically to what JPMorgan is doing? Jamie Dimon: Yes. So I totally agree. [B]anks are a port in the storm this time....
...private label line (365 Everyday Value) and smaller store format than other grocers (e.g., Krogers) would be appealing to Amazon....
...Rocco was smuggled on to one of RJR Nabisco’s 10 private jets, listed as the passenger “G Shepherd” and flown from California to the group’s headquarters in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an executive...
...Increasingly, however, those doing the choosing are the rich. The erosion of the unions and civic organisations has left big business with no “countervailing power”, to use JK Galbraith’s phrase....
...Kingfisher has now sold a controlling stake in its lossmaking B&Q China business in a £140m cash deal....
...I got here by doing it,” wrote Estée Lauder in the autobiography that relates how she transformed beauty into big business, writes Scheherazade Daneshkhu....
...The number of butchers has fallen slightly since 2010 – to 6,500 in 2013, according to The Grocer magazine’s Grocery Retail Structure survey – but that number masks a rise in quality....
...Cascade is a B Corp, as Michigan has yet to adopt benefit corporation laws....
...For sure, executive education will be transformed by new technology (e.g. internet and the smart phone), new business models (e.g. low cost players, more blended learning), new competitors (b.schools in...
...I developed an interest in legal topics and I am thinking about doing an LLM. What programs do you recommend for business graduates?...
...The future of work consortium includes artists and DJs as well as financiers and other more mainstream business people. It is an innovative attempt to map out a better way of doing things....
..."Fifty per cent of the [grocery] business in America is still in 'mom and pop' grocers and small regional chains. So there's going to be a tremendous amount of consolidation," Mr Johnston says....
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