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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Goldman used its power to scale to get to market quickly, assembling a pipeline of services, investing in sophisticated measurement systems and developing a global core curriculum.

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Zappos’ CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer-Led Culture

Harvard Business Review

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. But we were reluctant to relinquish control of something that is one of Zappo’s core competencies. Usually when marketing departments do their ROI calculations, they assume that the lifetime value of a customer is fixed.

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