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These Franchise Trends Are Hot!
Entrepreneur US

These Franchise Trends Are Hot!

If you're looking to buy a franchise, start with this list. We break down 10 of the industry's hottest trends, and more than 400 brands to choose from.

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Startups - Summer 2024
You're Never Out of Options
Entrepreneur US

You're Never Out of Options

An entrepreneur's path is never simple or easy-but you have more opportunities than you think.

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Startups - Summer 2024
Which Franchise Model Is Right for You?
Entrepreneur US

Which Franchise Model Is Right for You?

There are two big ones: You're either a location-based business, or you're service-based. Here's how to decide between them.

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Startups - Summer 2024
Auditing Algorithmic Risk
MIT Sloan Management Review

Auditing Algorithmic Risk

How do we know whether algorithmic systems are working as intended? A set of simple frameworks can help even nontechnical organizations check the functioning of their AI tools.

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Summer 2024
Acing Value-Based Sales
MIT Sloan Management Review

Acing Value-Based Sales

To get the best returns on innovative products, collaborate with customers to define and share the commercial opportunity.

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Summer 2024
Engineer Your Own Luck
MIT Sloan Management Review

Engineer Your Own Luck

Companies that modularize and externalize their best capabilities are in a strong position to seize unexpected opportunities.

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10 mins  |
Summer 2024
How AI Skews Our Sense of Responsibility
MIT Sloan Management Review

How AI Skews Our Sense of Responsibility

Research shows how using an Al-augmented system may affect humans' perception of their own agency and responsibility.

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Summer 2024
How Generative AI Can Support Advanced Analytics Practice
MIT Sloan Management Review

How Generative AI Can Support Advanced Analytics Practice

Large language models can enhance data and analytics work by helping humans prepare data, improve models, and understand results.

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Summer 2024
How Long for AI to Pay Off?
MIT Sloan Management Review

How Long for AI to Pay Off?

SPECULATION ABOUNDS CONCERNING AI’S ULTIMATE IMPACT ON ORGANIzations and marketing, but it’s tough to discern where companies are achieving results.

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Summer 2024
Why Territorial Managers Stifle Innovation and What to Do About It
MIT Sloan Management Review

Why Territorial Managers Stifle Innovation and What to Do About It

Managers who feel insecure about their status tend not to encourage novel ideas from their employees. Fostering their identification with the organization can change this behavior.

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Summer 2024
The Hazards of Putting Ethics on Autopilot
MIT Sloan Management Review

The Hazards of Putting Ethics on Autopilot

Research shows that employees who are steered by digital nudges may lose some ethical competency. That has implications for how we use the new generation of AI assistants.

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Summer 2024
Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers
MIT Sloan Management Review

Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers

Your organization's highest-performing employees want executives to focus on outcomes and accountability, not office badge swipes.

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8 mins  |
Summer 2024
To Navigate Conflict, Prioritize Dignity
MIT Sloan Management Review

To Navigate Conflict, Prioritize Dignity

Four interrelated practices can bolster dignity, leading to more constructive problem-solving and collaboration.

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5 mins  |
Summer 2024
The CEO's Cyber Resilience Playbook
MIT Sloan Management Review

The CEO's Cyber Resilience Playbook

What do CEOs who led through a serious cyberattack regret? Use this guide to learn from their experiences and take smarter actions before, during, and after an attack.

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Summer 2024
A Tale of Two Hot Sauces: Spicing Up Diversification
MIT Sloan Management Review

A Tale of Two Hot Sauces: Spicing Up Diversification

The contrasting paths of two hot sauce manufacturers show that managing exposure on multiple fronts is essential.

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Summer 2024
Serve More Customers With Inclusive Product Design
MIT Sloan Management Review

Serve More Customers With Inclusive Product Design

Use these questions to empower teams to design products for more diverse populations.

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Summer 2024
11,196 Years in Prison
WIRED

11,196 Years in Prison

Faruk Özer made crypto seem like the sation to decades of economic dysimction. Then he became Turkey's most wanted-and hated-man.

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July - August 2024
A Tale of Two Mice
Writer’s Digest

A Tale of Two Mice

Novelist Simon Van Booy tells the touching true story of how his pet mice inspired his newest novel, Sipsworth.

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July - August 2024
Searching for Answers in Faith, Poetry, and the Empty Forest
Writer’s Digest

Searching for Answers in Faith, Poetry, and the Empty Forest

Calloway Song, winner of the 18th Annual Writer's Digest Poetry Awards, shares the story behind his winning poem, \"Songs of Gideon.\"

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July - August 2024
A Funny Thing Happened When I Fell From the Sky
Writer’s Digest

A Funny Thing Happened When I Fell From the Sky

Using magical realism and surrealism in your writing.

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July - August 2024
Steven Rowley
Writer’s Digest

Steven Rowley

The New York Timesbestselling author discusses reconnecting with old characters, balancing humor and heart, and his new release, The Guncle Abroad.

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July - August 2024
Choosing Violence
Writer’s Digest

Choosing Violence

The secret to writing animal characters.

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July - August 2024
Acting Against Their Nature
Writer’s Digest

Acting Against Their Nature

Four ways to create effective uncharacteristic behavior in your characters.

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July - August 2024
How Nature Journaling Can Help Your Writing
Writer’s Digest

How Nature Journaling Can Help Your Writing

As writers, we want to transport our readers to the world we are describing or creating on the page.

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July - August 2024
A New Perspective Goes a Long Way
Writer’s Digest

A New Perspective Goes a Long Way

How exploring different perspectives in the drafting phase story's unique angle.

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July - August 2024
The Art of People-Watching
Writer’s Digest

The Art of People-Watching

Advice for how observation can help you put people on the page.

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July - August 2024
The Ecology of the Family
Writer’s Digest

The Ecology of the Family

Build and leverage a family ecosystem to develop and deepen your fiction.

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8 mins  |
July - August 2024
Tech Silicon Valley Startups Are Invading The Military Market - Silicon Valley and the military have a complicated history.
Fortune US

Tech Silicon Valley Startups Are Invading The Military Market - Silicon Valley and the military have a complicated history.

At the end of February 2022-a few days after cofounders Luke Allen and Steven Simoni sold their 90-person restaurant-tech startup to DoorDash― Russia invaded Ukraine.

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June - July 2024
Walmart's Mr. Fix-It
Fortune US

Walmart's Mr. Fix-It

When Doug McMillon became CEO in 2014, Walmart's sales had stagnated, and customers were defecting to Amazon in droves. Over the next 10 years, he built an e-commerce powerhouse-and extended Walmart's ironfisted hold on the Fortune 500's No. 1 spot. Can McMillon and the big-box giant stay on top in a digital age?

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June - July 2024
The Death of the American Pharmacy
Fortune US

The Death of the American Pharmacy

Bartell's, a beloved Seattle drugstore now owned by debt-laden Rite Aid, is closing many of its locations. Its demise is the latest symptom of a national health care crisis that hurts all of us.

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10+ mins  |
June - July 2024