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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. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people.

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

Lazear went on to describe how economists, with the University of Chicago's Gary Becker leading the way , had been running roughshod over the other social sciences — using economic tools to study crime, the family, accounting, corporate management, and countless other not strictly economic topics. Many of us like to think of ?nancial

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Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies

Harvard Business Review

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. But is this a realistic expectation for directors?

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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. Thinking about how to influence the evolving global rules may seem very far from the daily pressures of managing one's company.

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How to Discover Your Company’s DNA

Harvard Business Review

The examples below seem to suggest that a company must stay true to its DNA, but has a lot of room to express that DNA in new ways whether in external strategy or internal management. But in the wake of that crisis, IBM returned to its DNA of “think.” To illustrate this, consider the paths of two competitors: IBM and HP.

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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. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence.

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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 Or calling.