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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The higher one rises in an organization, the more one must be a generalist.

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Unlocking the Potential of Less Than Truckload (LTL) Freight Shipping: Strategies for Efficiency and Cost Management

Strategy Driven

One effective strategy is to combine smaller shipments destined for similar locations into one LTL shipment, which leads to better freight rates due to economies of scale. The Role of Packaging in LTL Freight Shipping Packaging is an integral element that affects both the safety of shipments and cost-efficiency in LTL freight.

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Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power

Harvard Business Review

But amidst a seemingly scripted set of responses on Walmart's supply chain and operational greening efforts, the discussion took an interesting turn. It also recognizes that, in the meantime, operational managers will gain valuable experience and knowledge about how to optimize the new power systems.

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Should Companies Retain "Strategic" Cash?

Harvard Business Review

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business.

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Your Judgment of Risk Is Compromised

Harvard Business Review

We will pay far more for a medical operation that increases our chance of surviving from 0% to 1% than one that increases it from 10% to 11%. The difference between 0% and 1%, for example, is much more salient than that between 10% and 11%, and the difference between 99% and 100% looms much larger than that between 89% and 90%.

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering. In operational engineering, PE firms develop industry and operating expertise that they bring to bear to add value to their portfolio companies.

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments.