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Small Business Spotlight: Just Add Cooking

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Consumers can buy shoes, books, coffee pots, linens and dog toys online, so why are they still going to the grocery store for the same dozen eggs and gallon of milk they buy every week? Boston-based meal kit company Just Add Cooking aims to address both by sourcing its kits from farms and businesses in the New England region.

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Rescuing The Restaurant Business From App Decline

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Restaurants can add incentive to a slow night, or pull back on promotions during full bookings. What will factor into any restaurant or restaurant group’s success in tomorrow’s online world are the numbers and demographics of just how tourist-traveled your city, town, or region is going forward. The operative word is control. “I

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

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Department stores, sporting goods stores, specialty retail, jewelry, books and music — the list goes on and the shift online more dramatic by the year. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008. Starbucks was a single storefront that didn’t even brew coffee back in 1971.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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While they drum up interest in the company, known as “book building,” underwriters also work to price the IPO, or determine how the stock should be priced when it first hits the market. Boston Consulting Group predicts, however, that only a few investment banks will ever again be able to grow to that kind of size.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

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Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. By demystifying the management consulting process, books, classes, and blog posts bring more transparency to the marketplace of ideas.

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Mall Kiosks Find New Life As ‘Studio Shops’

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The beloved mall kiosk, or the more formally named retail merchandising unit ( RMU ), had its humble beginnings in Boston. Brands will be able to lease space for a relatively short period of time – six months to one year – in a variety of designs, from standard cubes to triangles and receptacles.

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Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?

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The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

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