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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business

Meanwhile, plenty of other organic products, including vegetables, milk, and tea, have become widely consumed, at least by affluent, health-conscious city dwellers. The product was perceived as more prone to spoilage since it typically lacked added sulfites. As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S.,

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A Survey of 1,700 Companies Reveals Common B2B Pricing Mistakes

Harvard Business

Top performers are more likely to: employ truly tailored pricing at the individual customer and product level. invest in ongoing development of capabilities among the sales and pricing teams through training and tools. A diagnosis allocated costs at the product and customer level to determine true profitability.

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Research: Immigrants Played an Outsize Role in America’s Age of Innovation

Harvard Business

“rust-belt” states, which were some of the most productive areas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The largest share of immigrants were involved in developing medical technology inventions, such as surgical sutures. The chart below shows the share in each state of inventors who were born abroad.

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New Regulations Place Sustainability and ESG at the Center of National and Global Business Competitiveness

Brimstone Consulting

PFAS are used in hundreds of thousands of products, from nonstick pans to water-repellent sports gear, to stain-resistant rugs. The issue is that PFAS do not degrade or degrade very slowly, giving them the name “forever chemicals.” Let’s take the example of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). If not, should it?

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. Product and Service Innovation. Consumer Products.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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What follows after the Eureka Moment: Consulting for Innovation Start-ups

Tom Spencer

When it comes to the plastics industry, the chemical recycling company Carbios is an instructive example of this delayed patenting strategy. Disrupting innovations can often lead to an avalanche of complementary technologies, since new production methods enable new products and require new supply chains.