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Lessons from the Best Global Brands 2010: Building trust and.

Strategy Driven

Figure 1: The Interbrand Best 100 Global Brands 2010 A look at two brands’ performances from this year’s table offers insight into how brands can navigate today’s marketplace. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. and Latin America.

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Brilliant Boutique: 10 Keys To Lasting Small Business Success

Terry Starbucker

It wasn’t hard to like Sarah Young as soon as we walked into her downtown store back in 2010, when we first moved to Portland. On June 2 nd , 2004, we opened. Focus on Customer Service from Day 1. She’s still a customer.

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The Personal Strength of Optimism - Sea Hearts Full of Hope

Building Personal Strength

The seed of the liana vine, it ripens along the banks of rivers in Central and South America. Copyright 2010. 2004 photo by Kathleen Scott , used with permission.). Once, when her latest treasure kept rolling off the top, I asked, “Do you have enough sea beans now?” Her answer was simply, “No.” Hope is a real thing.

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Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?

Harvard Business Review

First, entrepreneurship is not riskier than working at a big bank or law firm, a fact vividly underscored by the de facto nationalization of the banking sector and mass layoffs of the last few years. But the conventional position is nonsense; building new companies is far more sensible than the practical will admit.

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

Five years later, under the banner of "The Girl Effect," Nike Foundation and its many partners, such as the NoVo Foundation the World Bank, DFID and the UN Foundation, have successfully influenced the global agenda and helped launch multi-million dollar programs to empower adolescent girls around the world. Early results are encouraging.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively. ” • “Reserve Bank permission? David Mulford, U.S. Why do I need five in India?

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The Happiness Advantage: Researching Happiness at Hogwarts

Strategy Driven

In 2004, for instance, a Harvard Crimson poll found that as many as 4 in 5 Harvard students suffer from depression at least once during the school year, and nearly half of all students suffer from depression so debilitating they can’t function. This unhappiness epidemic is not unique to Harvard. In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think Inc.