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April 14, 2020
Profit Gets in the Way of US Covid-19 Fight
Not enough financial incentive for firms to ramp up production of masks
United States President Donald Trump sees every development as a triumph. After he signed a Defence Production Act to compel 3M to produce…
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Profit gets in the way of US Covid-19 fight
Not enough financial incentive for firms to ramp up production of masks
United States President Donald Trump sees every development as a triumph. After he signed a Defence Production Act to compel 3M to produce…
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April 3, 2020
3M Makes A Lot Of Masks But Trump Can’t Increase Its Supply
Late on Thursday night, Trump announced he had signed a Defense Production Act to compel 3M to produce face masks, specifically for the N95 respirator. The Defense Production Act, which was passed in 1950, grants…
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March 23, 2020
How Autonomy Creates Resilience in the Face of Crisis
One Chinese manufacturing giant quickly rebounded from the coronavirus. Here’s what you can learn from its org chart.
The outbreak of COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of the global supply chain and, in turn, many…
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March 6, 2020
Where Clayton Christensen Taught What Others Could Not
Harvard Business School professor and businessman, Clayton Christensen, known by many as the “godfather” of disruptive innovation, died in January at the age of 67.
“Why do so many great companies fail?” Professor Christensen asked…
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March 1, 2020
Fighting Huawei Distracts From Investing in Real Science
How can America regain its technological sovereignty? The big-picture concept, described by White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, is to have all the U.S. 5G architecture and infrastructure principally supplied by American firms. In this…
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January 31, 2020
Why Visa And Mastercard Are Today’s Most Exciting FinTech Innovators
In the world of the platform economy, the big get bigger. It’s the winner who takes all. That’s why investors were all turning their attention last Thursday as Visa announced its quarterly earnings. Processing some…
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June 7, 2019
The Shadow Of Regulation Looms Large Over Big Tech
It was once hard to see governments taking on the likes of Facebook and Google, but not now
At anyone’s political height, it’s hard to imagine how they might fall. At the height of Apple,…
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February 7, 2019
Data Analytics, Not Innovation, Makes Tech Giants “Giant”
Facebook’s decision to integrate WhatsApp and Instagram is About expanding its “network effect”
Internet companies are often dubbed the “fruit flies” of the business world. Change is rapid, life cycles are short, and there’s not…
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December 7, 2018
What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy
No industry is failing faster than retail. Just last month, the 125-year-old Sears—once the world’s largest retailer—filed for bankruptcy. The public has more or less come to expect the shuttering of stores such as Macy’s,…
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