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Harvard Business Review Logo Deagreez/Getty Images For decades, multinational companies treated localization as a surface-layer adjustment. They tweaked marketing, packaging, or pricing to suit regional tastes. But in today’s fractured world, such superficial localization is no longer good enough. Trade policies conflict. Data laws clash. And many governments now enforce data sovereignty laws and mandates

The world’s largest public companies are intensifying their long-term commitment to Bitcoin, pushing their collective holdings to an unprecedented level. According to newly published data, the top 100 public corporations holding Bitcoin now control 1,105,236 BTC, a figure representing 5.26% of Bitcoin’s total supply and 5.5% of the currently circulating supply. The scale of accumulation

Nigeria businesses are holding off on issuing new debt, creating a quiet spell in the corporate bond market, waiting for a more favourable borrowing environment. With interest rates at their highest levels in decades, the cost of servicing new debt has become expensive for many firms. Consequently hoping for a series of rate cuts that

SINGAPORE — More companies are set to freeze wages over the next year as business confidence weakens because of ongoing economic uncertainties, a Singapore Business Federation (SBF) survey released on Aug 28 (Thursday) found. Business satisfaction with the current state of the economy has slipped to 33 per cent, from 35 per cent the previous year;

An article from Dive Brief The Business Roundtable sees opportunities to solve the labor gap on a large scale. A technician and a trainee work together on an AC unit repair. Members of the Business Roundtable are collaborating to boost skilled trades as a career choice among young people. Hiraman via Getty Images First published

This week, I have a new story out about Quaise, a geothermal startup that’s trying to commercialize new drilling technology. Using a device called a gyrotron, the company wants to drill deeper, cheaper, in an effort to unlock geothermal power anywhere on the planet. (For all the details, check it out here.)  For the story

Auto companies are feeling the hit from recent Chinese export controls on rare earth magnets.Read more...

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