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How Ishida Drives Impact With 360Learning Founded in Japan in 1893, Ishida is the leading manufacturer of weighing and packaging equipment for the global consumables market, with more than 3500 employees across the world. As the first overseas subsidiary, Ishida Europe is headquartered in Birmingham, UK, and oversees 700+ employees spread across EMEA. With their incredibly diverse workforce—including frontline assembly teams, field service engineers, and sales staff—ensuring compliance in a highly regulated environment is no small task. This case study explores how Ishida overcame their challenges in workforce skills development and compliance by introducing powerful automations that drastically reduced admin…
Rich heritage, historic Adobe architecture and a vibrant art community provide breathtaking scenery like the otherworldly White Sands National Park and the ancient cliff dwellings of the Bendelia National Monument. If you are considering living somewhere in New Mexico, you may also have a budget that you want to stay in searching for your home or apartment. As of April, the median home sales price for New Mexico was $357,400. If that price doesn’t fit your budget, don’t worry. Redfin has collected seven of the most affordable locations in New Mexico. And the best part is that they all have…
Check out the companies making headlines in the midday trading: Berkshire Hathaway – The Warren Buffett conglomerate saw stocks fall more than 4%, falling from record highs on Friday. The sale came Monday after 94-year-old Buffett announced his intention to step down as CEO. The board voted unanimously on Sunday to acquire President and CEO Greg Abel on January 1, 2026, maintaining Buffett as chairman. Meanwhile, Berkshire’s operating profit fell 14% in the first quarter, with 48.6% of insurance-based profits plummeted. In semiconductors, shares fell more than 8% in the first quarter despite chip makers’ top-line and bottom-line beats. It…
This article has two lists. A list of popular economics books that we recommend reading. And a list of popular economics books I recommend avoiding. What are the popular economics books? My first thought is that it is written without the mathematics and diagrams used by economists when teaching courses. My second thought is that you have to have a book that repeats submite in the press. I relaxed this standard because this may be too heavily biased towards the book by a conservative author. My third thought is that there are a lot of popular books on the business…
Fintech meets eLearning: A Smart Future In a world where smartphones can do everything from dinner ordering to mortgage applications, it’s no surprise that education and finance are two major areas of digital transformation. But what’s really exciting is what happens when these two industries (fintech and e-learning) come together. Individually, both sectors are based on impressive growth trajectories. eLearning makes knowledge more accessible than ever, and FinTech has completely changed the way we think of money management. Together, they are creating new models for interactive, personalized and instantly applicable financial education. Understanding the Basics: What is Fintech and e-learning?…
In their influential magnum opus, Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson develop the proposition that the wealth of nations is ultimately the outcome of political and economic institutions able to generate prosperity, progress and the distribution of opportunities for growth. The authors characterize this set of arrangements as “inclusive institutions,” namely, access to free exchange of goods and services, open competition, liberal democracy, a stable currency, and a reliable legal framework that guarantees contract enforcement and protects well-defined property rights. Thus, income disparities across homogenous regions and throughout the world can be attributed to differences in the…
Expert tips on updating pre-war apartments, historic brownstones, and more Whether you’re redesigning a pre-war apartment in New York City or renovating a historic townhouse in Boston, updating an older home is no small task. These spaces often come with original details worth preserving—soaring ceilings, crown molding, antique hardware—that give them their character and charm. But blending that old-world appeal with modern comforts takes care and intention. To help you navigate the process, Redfin gathered tips from preservationists, interior designers, and renovation experts who specialize in striking the perfect balance between historic integrity and contemporary living. 1. Honor the story…
MURIEL WILKINS: I’m Muriel Wilkins, and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR Podcast Network. I’m a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful leaders who’ve hit a bump in the road. My job is to help them get over that bump by clarifying their goals and figuring out a way to reach them so that, hopefully, they can lead with a little more ease. I typically work with clients over the course of several months, but on this show, we have a one-time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge they’re facing. Today’s guest is…
Common Law Liberalism Review: A New Theory of Libertarian Society by John Hasna. “Around the way you look.” John Hasna’s main political advice may sound luxurious. But his amazing book, Common Law Liberalism, is a warning against the “careless meaninglessness” that social scientists often suffer from, and people who like to flirt with theory more than others. Careless speed consists of “unrequitedly not realising that it was a completely visible, yet unconventional object, but was furious at another task, event, or object.” That perfectly visible object, a gorilla no one notices, is the law. Hasnas refers to the first pointless…
David Riccardo. A recent article in the Financial Times claims that economists misunderstand tariffs. I point out that tariffs have political and moral aspects that cannot be captured by standard economic reasoning. Therefore, we are subject to the broad advocacy of economists’ free trade in our dangers. He concludes that “we need a new, truly progressive economics focusing on the real world and its history, rather than an abstract model built on mistrust.” Economists have been accused of being too cautious about reality and being too many models. The accusation is a submarine. But critics are guilty of equally harmful…