Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
In this article, the authors look at the experience of Tony’s Chocolonely, a Dutch chocolate brand founded in 2005, which set itself a mission to sell 100% slavery-free chocolate. In the cocoa industry, for example, the average farmer cultivates between three and five hectares to earn less than two dollars a day.
MishTalk
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
Those touting the "recovery" in Spain need to step back and ponder this headline story translated from Libre Mercado : household income falls 10% and back to 2005 levels. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. compared the previous year.
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MishTalk
AUGUST 5, 2014
An interesting divergence is underway in China with manufacturing in expansion while the service sector is at the lowest reading since November 2005 according to HSBC China Composite PMI HSBC China Composite PMI™ data (which covers both manufacturing and services) signalled a third consecutive monthly expansion of Chinese business activity in July.
Harvard Business
MAY 18, 2017
Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.
Melissa Agnes
OCTOBER 16, 2014
The issue of emergency management as a profession has been discussed and debated for several years. In addition to performing the duties of an emergency manager, there are political and policy-making issues requiring the emergency manager’s attention. Emergency managers are engaged in a time of significant change. .
Tom Spencer
JULY 4, 2020
Every year strategy consulting firms and agencies that specialise in executive business management and the “maximising shareholder value” approach receive billions of dollars for their services (Management Consulting, 2020). Are consulting firms about more than just advising management? Hierarchy of Consulting Purposes.
Rick Conlow
AUGUST 4, 2021
Consequently, 82% of managers fail and 85% of employees are sadly disengaged worldwide. Adam Grant, management researcher and professor at the Wharton School of Business, shows in his book Give and Take that servant leaders are more productive and more highly regarded by employees. Servant Leaders are Better than Great.
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