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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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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. The finance department is your business foundation so you need it to be one that you can trust. They need to be tech experts, navigating your cloud contact center , social media and customer management systems.

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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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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

So were the currency and debt crises of 1997 and 1998, and the stock market collapse of 2000-2002. and Europe, though (and Japan's long struggles were seen as the product of peculiarly Japanese economic traits). So they moved on (Brock's Santa Fe affiliation ended in 2002). The 1987 stock market crash was a scare.

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How to Discover Your Company’s DNA

Harvard Business Review

In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. 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.

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