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WorkWorkResearch: How Should Multinational Firms Navigate Local Rules? - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)When multinational firms enter new markets, they have to choose how to manage the formal and informal local rules that can vary greatly. Local institutions and rules matter, and there are clear risks for top executives at headquarters who don’t take them seriously. But constantly adapting to local practices could jeopardize a company’s ability to integrate operations across markets. A study of five globally successful Scandinavian companies identified six tactics that firms can use to address local rules while maintaining competitive advantage: Avoid, alter, adapt, imitate, influence, and innovate.
WorkWorkThe Art of Taking It Slow - The New Yorker (No paywall)There are places in California that can make a person feel in tune with geological time, newly alert, on the brink of something cosmic. Walnut Creek, an affluent suburb east of San Francisco, is not one of them. Nestled in the foothills of stately Mt. Diablo, the city’s quaint downtown is buffeted by chain retailers and big-box stores. On a recent summer morning, I took the train there to meet Grant Petersen, the bicycle designer, writer, and founder of Rivendell Bicycle Works. Petersen has become famous for making beautiful bikes, using materials and components that his industry has mostly abandoned, and for promoting a vision of cycling that is low-key, functional, anti-car, and anti-corporate. He has polarizing opinions and an outsized influence. Sensing that it would be uncouth to arrive on foot, and wanting to honestly communicate my level of commitment to cycling, I brought my bike: a red nineteen-eighties Nashbar that I purchased in my mid-twenties, rode happily for a decade, and abandoned when I became pregnant and freshly terrified of death. The bike had spent the past two years hanging vertically in the garage, where, from time to time, I accidentally backed into it with the car. The wheels were out of true, and—a separate issue—couldn’t be removed: I had installed locking anti-theft skewers, then lost the key.
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WorkAmerica is becoming less "woke" - The Economist (No paywall)Regina Jackson and Saira Rao achieved a degree of fame at the height of the backlash in 2020 after police killed George Floyd, an unarmed black American accused of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 note. For a hefty fee, rich white women would hire the pair to help them confront unconscious biases at dinner parties that featured such ice-breakers as, “Raise your hand if you’re a racist.” Guests may often have broken down in tears when told that their claims to be colour-blind were simply another brick in the edifice of white supremacy, but there was lots of interest. The two women were featured in many news reports and made a film about their dinners, “Deconstructing Karen”, in which a guilt-stricken participant confesses, “I am a liberal white woman. We are absolutely the most dangerous women.” Work
WorkElon Musk's X Backs Down in BrazilThe abrupt about-face from Mr. Musk in Brazil appeared to be a defeat for the outspoken businessman and his self-designed image as a warrior for free speech. Mr. Musk and his company had loudly and harshly criticized Brazil’s Supreme Court for months, even publicly releasing some of its sealed orders, but neither had publicly mentioned their reversal by Saturday morning. Work WorkWorkA Week of Chaos Pushes Lebanon's Doctors to the LimitThe attacks on Hezbollah’s communication devices this week — widely attributed to Israel — wounded thousands of people, leaving many of them permanently disabled and in need of long-term rehabilitative care. The Israeli airstrike just miles from downtown Beirut on Friday, which killed at least 37 people and injured dozens more, has only added to the toll. Others are still presumed trapped in the debris. WorkWorkEarly Prime Day deals include the Pixel Buds A-Series for only $64Google says the Pixel Buds A-Series earbuds get about five hours of listening time on a charge, or 2.5 hours of talk time. With the charging case, listening time goes up to about 24 hours. With the current deal, you can get the Pixel Buds A-Series earbuds in Clearly White or Dark Olive for $35 off the usual price. For a dollar more, you can grab them in Charcoal. (The pale blue Sea color option unfortunately isn’t covered in the discount). At $64, the Pixel Buds A-Series is almost at a record low, and cheaper even than during Prime Day in July. WorkWorkActivist with far-right ties fronts Marco Rubio-linked anti-immigration effortIn May, in the American Mind, Hochman began a glowing review of The Unprotected Class, a book by the Claremont Institute’s Jeremy Carl that claims America is racked by anti-white racism, with the line: “Ethnic discrimination is as old as human civilization itself,” and goes on to argue: “Racial revenge is the germ of the sustained campaign to defame, attack, and disenfranchise white Americans on behalf of their country’s most powerful institutions.” WorkWorkWorkMotel 6 sold to Indian hotel operator for $525 million“This transaction is a terrific outcome for investors and is the culmination of an ambitious business plan that more than tripled our investors’ capital and generated over $1 billion in profit over our hold period,” Rob Harper, the head of Blackstone Real Estate Asset Management Americas, said in a statement. WorkWorkWorkAt a Rally in North Carolina, Trump Avoids Topic A: Mark RobinsonBuilding on his effort to make immigration, an area where voters are dissatisfied with Democrats, the central issue of the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump announced that he would push Congress to pass legislation outlawing so-called sanctuary cities, places that limit how local law enforcement can cooperate with federal immigration authorities. During his presidency, Mr. Trump issued an executive order that tried to withhold federal grants to such locales, an effort that was blocked by federal courts. WorkNewsom Signs Bill That Adds Protections for Children on Social MediaIn June, Governor Newsom also called for a ban on smartphone use in all public schools in California. Legislation now before him includes a requirement that the schools devise a policy by July 1, 2026, to limit or prohibit smartphones during the school day, though most school districts already have cellphone policies. WorkJD Vance to Appear With Tucker Carlson, Who Amplified False Holocaust ClaimsLater this month, Mr. Carlson will be joined by Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist who has been ordered to pay over $1.4 billion in defamation damages to the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012; Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia; and Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s eldest child and the host of the podcast “Triggered.” WorkHarris Agrees to a Second Debate, but Trump DeclinesAt a rally in Wilmington, N.C., on Saturday, Mr. Trump once again rejected the idea of another debate, insisting that he won his debate against Ms. Harris and blaming timing. “The problem with another debate is that it’s just too late,” he said. “Voting has already started.” WorkBiden Hosts a Final 'Quad Summit' at His Delaware Home“The vibe of it was sort of two guys, one at the other guy’s home, talking in broad strokes about where they see the state of the world, you know, swapping some stories from their respective political careers,” Mr. Sullivan told reporters on Saturday. It felt, he said, as if “you had someone come over for a cup of coffee.” WorkArizona Court Allows 98,000 to Vote in State and Local Races Despite Database Glitch“Today marks a significant victory for those whose fundamental right to vote was under scrutiny,” he said. “The court faced a stark choice: to allow voters to participate in just a few federal races on a limited ballot, or to make their voices heard across hundreds of decisions on a full ballot that includes a variety of local and state offices.” WorkLiz Cheney Suggests a New Political Party May Be NeededThe daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who also recently said he would vote for Ms. Harris, Ms. Cheney has supported only Republican presidential candidates since casting her first ballot for Ronald Reagan in 1984. But her estrangement from her party was evident when she was asked if she still called herself a Republican and she said, “I’m a conservative.” WorkHarris Enters Homestretch With a Far Bigger, Costlier Campaign Than TrumpThe candidates had already announced their top-line figures for the month of August: Ms. Harris’s campaign, when combined with allied party committees, had almost tripled Mr. Trump in fund-raising, collecting $361 million for all of her committees while Mr. Trump’s campaign and associated committees took in just $130 million for his. All told, including some campaign committees that don’t file reports until next month, Mr. Trump entered September facing a $110 million cash deficit against Ms. Harris, according to their self-disclosed numbers. WorkWorkWorkExploding Pagers Deliver a Supply Chain Warning“Companies must decide which level of security must be implemented in their supply chains,” Hannah Kain, the chief executive of ALOM, a global supply chain company, told DealBook. “We just moved several notches out on the paranoia scale.” WorkWomen Entrepreneurs Are Hitting a Funding WallFounders like Ms. Papin-Zoghbi are hitting — or fear hitting — a funding wall, an obstacle they say has been heightened by a rollback in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and a general downturn in start-up investing. WorkEarth's Fall Equinox Ushers In Astronomical AutumnThe ever-changing dates of equinoxes and similar events cause the timing and length of the astronomical seasons to vary, which means they are not useful for scientists analyzing climate trends from year to year. WorkWorkWorkHow Elon Musk hopes his new supercomputers will boost his businesses Despite being one of its founders, Elon Musk left OpenAI in 2018 and has since become one of the company's harshest critics. In June, it was announced that xAI would build a supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee to train Grok. In early September, Musk revealed that a portion of the Memphis supercomputer, called Colossus, was already online. WorkWorkWorkAttacks on Hezbollah Alter Balance of Power in Long-Running Fight“Eighteen years of mutual deterrence has now given way to a new phase of one-sided superiority on the part of Israel,” said Lina Khatib, an associate fellow at Chatham House, a London-based research organization. “The facade that Hezbollah had been presenting to the world of it being an impenetrable organization is shattered, and Israel has displayed with flair how much of an upper hand it has in this equation vis-à-vis Hezbollah.” WorkMacron Appoints Cabinet as He Seeks to Move France Out of Political ImpasseThe delay was the longest such deliberation in the history of the Fifth Republic, following the longest ever time taken by a president to name a prime minister. Agreeing on a budget will be the government’s first priority, with the country’s debt and budget deficit ballooning amid growing international concern. WorkOpinion | Sean Combs and the Limits of the 'Family Man' DefenseThey’re trying it because, to some extent, we still assign a positive moral value to getting married and having children. It’s why Republicans keep using Kamala Harris’s lack of biological children to attack her character. Combs’s lawyers are also likely playing on built in prejudices against Black women in particular, who have always had a harder time being seen as respectable, aspirational or worthy of protection in the public eye. WorkOpinion | When Gunmen Impose a Policy of RapeSuad’s daughter, Namarag, is 2 years old and suffering from acute malnutrition. Suad said that’s because the Arab militia has prevented members of her community from planting and harvesting crops. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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