EBC 2023 at a glance

May 11, 2023

COLORADO SPRINGS — The Executive Briefing Conference, to be held September 26-28 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, is renowned as the cutting-edge forum for industry best practices, technology trends, economic analysis and forecasting, and dynamic networking opportunities.  The event draws owners, managers, entrepreneurs and leaders from across the spectrum of the woodworking industry, including […]

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East, Southern Europe Win as Firms Rethink Supply Chains

May 11, 2023

Low-cost economies in eastern and southern Europe are being increasingly favored for investment as companies around the world revamp supply chains to make them more resilient and cost-efficient, a study by professional services group EY found. The finding came as foreign direct investment (FDI) into Europe as a whole last year stalled, with inflation, soaring […]

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Purdue’s eXcellence in Manufacturing and Operations initiative meets the moment

May 10, 2023

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — As the U.S. experiences a resurgence of manufacturing and operations, Purdue University is providing a big lead. The university’s efforts in such areas as semiconductors, aerospace, defense, biomanufacturing for agriculture and transportation figure prominently in bringing jobs and needed technology back to America and in defining the future through excellence in […]

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Accelerators see a spike in interest as VCs like Sequoia and Accel look to bulk up seed stage investing

May 10, 2023

They were both incubated by startup accelerator Y Combinator during the financial crisis in 2009. Now, many VC firms are hoping lightning will strike again as they have been rolling out and expanding accelerator-style programs of their own recently to source founders before they even have fleshed out a vision for their startup.  Y Combinator, […]

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WSJ: Private Investors Looking to Capitalize on Nearshoring Trends Turn to Mexico

May 9, 2023

A supply-chain rethink is driving private-capital firms and their portfolio companies to set up manufacturing operations in the U.S.’s southern neighbor, which offers skilled workers and free trade WALL STREET JOURNAL: As more businesses look to diversify their supply chains and bring more of their production closer to the U.S., private-capital firms and the companies […]

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The Eurasian Leaks in the West’s Russia Sanctions

May 9, 2023

LONDON – Changes to the global trade system, not least because of the deepening Sino-American rivalry, have been making headlines in recent years. Yet while most of the attention has focused on trends like “friend-shoring,” “near-shoring,” and “reshoring” of supply chains, recent changes in the patterns of cross-border Eurasian trade have gone largely unnoticed, despite […]

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It’s Time to Build For America: Announcing Our $500M+ Commitment to Companies Building in American Dynamism

May 9, 2023

We formalized our American Dynamism practice a little more than a year ago to galvanize support for solving our country’s most vexing challenges with an entrepreneurial and technology-first approach. We’ve been blown away at how this movement has captured the minds of entrepreneurs, policymakers, and investors across the country and throughout the world.   So first, […]

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How Reshoring Will Restore the Drug Supply Chain

May 9, 2023

Drug shortages are a persistent problem, but they don’t have to be, according to Penn’s Ezekiel (Zeke) Emanuel. He believes reshoring drug manufacturing will make America less dependent on fragile foreign supply chains. Drug shortages are rampant across much of Europe and the United States, where more than 100 medications, from antibiotics to inhalers to […]

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Ensuring Stability Through Supply Chain Diversification

May 9, 2023

Many businesses believe — or at least hope — that the supply chain disruptions of the past few years are symptoms of a temporary problem. Whether this is indeed the case is anyone guess. What’s certain is that a combination of aging infrastructure, natural disasters, a volatile economy and geopolitical tensions with China is underscoring […]

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China Could ‘Double’ Its Economy By 2035, Emerge As Biggest Power On Planet. What Could Possibly Stop Beijing?

May 8, 2023

OPED by Lt Gen. PR Shankar (Retired) In 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping famously declared victory over COVID-19. He also proclaimed that China could double its economy by 2035. Those were the heady days when everything was going right for China, and nothing was going right for the rest of the world. How things have […]

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