Ikea, H and M: twin Swedish success stories
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Similar strategies finely tuned over the past sixty years have made Ikea's flatpack furniture and H and M's affordable fashion major Swedish export successes the world over, as the two groups continue to expand year after year.
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Fast company It&#146;s a familiar tension in business. Business people think designers are mere stylists; designers think business people are Neanderthals who forfeit quality for profit. That&#146;s because traditional business runs on logic that is inductive (using observation to prove something works) and deductive (using principles to prove that something must be). But designers rely on abductive reasoning. Huh? It&#146;s ...
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - American researchers Dr. Richard Axel and Linda B...
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Should businesses replace post-mortems with âpre-mortems?â Adopt âcounterintuitive management practices?â And more...
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Fulfillment leads to achievement, not the other way around.
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A new study in Sweden raises hopes for discovering the Holy Grail of AIDS research
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Can remodeled stores and smart overseas expansion kick-start growth? It better.
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The furniture company's profitability is better than expected, but for how long?
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Uncovering tomorrow's industry leaders today.
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Life & style: Britain's first "Ikealand" opens to spread the off-the-shelf principle from furniture to entire houses
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Practical tools for assessing who is worth doing business with--and who isn't.
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By Gita Sitaramiah, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Jun. 1--When it comes satisfying cybershoppers, the bricks-and-mortar folks generally have a lot to learn.
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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Science and skill unite in the growth-investing universe.
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Ikea is one of the few reasons why having a job where you work weekends - and have the odd weekday off - is a godsend.
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Germany's MAN AG is preparing a more   attractive offer for Sweden's Scania SCVb.ST, the Wall Street   Journal on Friday quoted MAN MANG.DE Chief Executive Hakan   Samuelsson as saying.
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The leading retailer of home products consistently produces results.