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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

Everyone’s getting slammed,” says Roger Lee, founder of Layoffs.fyi, told Yahoo Finance “Earlier in the year, layoffs in tech were concentrated within food, transportation, and finance startups — but at this point it’s hitting every sector within tech.”. What’s the score on tech layoffs?

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

Along the way, I learned a great deal about team development and leadership. Equally important, each member should meet the essential “ROPE” criteria I developed over decades of climbing. Kemper Freeman, CEO of Kemper Development Corporation, for example, has been an active member of the Rotary Club for decades.

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

Harvard Business Review

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. The way to increase seed- and early-stage financing for physical-product start-ups is to reduce individual investors' risk by improving the quality of due diligence and spreading risk across a larger number of investors.

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The Brighter Side of Decades of Disappointing Investment Returns

Harvard Business Review

Over time, Rob Arnott and Peter Bernstein demonstrated in a great 2002 article in the Financial Analysts Journal , stock market returns should and do trail economic growth. An important engine for economic growth is the creation of new enterprises. Compensation Economy Finance'

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. It didn’t happen.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.