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If you want to do well in your A2 exam, a wider understanding of business in general is required. This article highlights challenges to some existing business sectors; you can use it as part of a strong conclusion, or as evidence when evaluating: These Are the Industries 3D Printing Just Might Blow Up Why you should care Because 3D printing might be a big part of your next job. By Christine Stoddard The Daily Dose  JUN 13 2017 OZY and GE are partnering to bring you an inside look into how additive manufacturing is changing the way things are made across industries and across the world. When many people think of 3D printing, they think of 3D printers that build prototypes out of polymer, says Laurence Vigeant-Langlois, executive marketing leader of GE’s Additive division. “The average person doesn’t know yet what ‘additive’ means. There’s a lot of basic education to be had,” she says. “Unless you’re at an industrial company or an engin...

Capturing the mood of the times The head of Unilever, Paul Polman, is spearheading a new approach — responsible business that works for society.  By  Dave Waller  June 20 2017, 12:01am,  The Times In early June President Trump announced that the US was leaving the Paris climate accord. The reason? The cost of the commitment and the impact it would have on the US economy. The president was sticking close to his populist script, playing on domestic economic fears, showing contempt for the scientific and political consensus, and hailing the move as “a reassertion of America’s sovereignty”. The usual suspects, from Al Gore to Greenpeace, reacted furiously, pointing to the immeasurably larger cost of the world’s second-largest carbon producer pulling out. So did a wave of business leaders, among them Tesla’s Elon Musk, Disney’s Bob Iger, Apple’s Tim Cook and Goldman Sachs’s Lloyd Blankfein. Paul Polman, the chief executive of Unilever, says the reaction to th...