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Toward security in sustainable battery raw material supply

McKensey

Fast-increasing demand for battery raw materials and imbalanced regional supply and demand are challenging battery and automotive producers efforts to reduce Scope 3 emissions.

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Advanced industries: New technologies and supply chain shifts are driving key portfolio and investment decisions

McKensey

A number of trends, including reduced interest rates and the emergence of new technologies, software, and ecosystems, point to an uptick in M&A activity within advanced industries and its subsectors.

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Is College Still Worth It?

Success

Yet the company—and consequently, the automotive industry at large—has had strong ties to students and institutions for decades. The school handles logistics for its 250 participating students, and the companies supply them with cars, tools, equipment, materials support and instructor training. Automotive jobs never shut down.

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Remanufacturing 101: Reviving parts, reclaiming value

McKensey

The remanufacturing market unlocks opportunity across sectors for higher margins, affordability, and supply chain resilience.

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‘There’s more risk involved with going to college’: How companies are attracting Gen Z to trades jobs

Work Life

The law of supply and demand indicates that there’s now a shortage and high demand for trade skills, and businesses are paying a lot of money to get those skills into their workforce.” Still, the supply of young people looking to get into trades isn’t on par with the demand, which helps keep opportunities favorable for Gen Z applicants.

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More Managers Than Ever Are Keeping Tabs on the News—Here’s What It Means for Companies

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Now, he’s also looking for information on international news, healthcare, technology, finance and sources related to the supply chain, he says, aiming to “understand what issues, shortages or situations are on the horizon to better plan business decisions around.

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How To Discover Your Organization’s Next Big Growth Opportunities

Tanveer Naseer

If you want it, whatever it is, chances are you’ll find it in the “Everything Store.” Or consider Richard Branson, who has managed to transform a London record store into a global conglomerate with over 400 different companies in a multitude of diverse market sectors that generates $25 billion in annual revenues.

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