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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. One of the things I look most forward to is watching Chris continue to develop and refine his thoughts as the medium advances and matures.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs.

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The Brighter Side of Decades of Disappointing Investment Returns

Harvard Business Review

While a low-return world imposes stresses on investors and savers in an over-leveraged world recovering from a deep financial crisis," Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton write, "it provides essential relief for borrowers." Compensation Economy Finance' Still, where there are losers, there are winners.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy.

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How to Discover Your Company’s DNA

Harvard Business Review

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. When Satoshi later developed an interest in video games, he saw a way to recreate his childhood experience of catching and collecting elusive creatures. But in the wake of that crisis, IBM returned to its DNA of “think.”

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

Business and organizational stories do not hit the public consciousness until there is a crisis. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed.

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When My Business Failed

Harvard Business Review

The Avon Products Foundation — the charitable arm of the Fortune 500 cosmetics company, illegally appropriated our Breast Cancer 3-Day concept, and on August 11th, 2002, announced their plans for a multi-day walk for breast cancer with full-page ads in major papers across the country. million in 2002 with us, to $11.1