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Social Networking for Business: Does it Really Work? :: Women on.

Women on Business

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. billion in 2010. In 2010, it overtook Japan to become the second-largest manufacturer, and its foreign-exchange reserves became the largest in the world. exports increased by only 11%.

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In FCC's Report on Wireless Competition, an Agenda?

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the Horizontal Merger Guidelines were revised to reflect this new thinking in competition analysis.). Part IV of the report, titled "Mobile Wireless Services: Provider Conduct," documents at least eight effective price cuts by wireless carriers in 2009 and 2010. federal antitrust agencies. (In

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

By 2010 the company had become the best-performing stock in the S&P 500, worth $30 per share and earning investors a return of 29 times. When Knudstorp took over as CEO in 2004, he quickly settled on a course of action: return the company to its core. Since then its stock has more than doubled. By 1993 the company had $1.3

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. ” During the volcanic ash crisis of 2010, what it offered wasn’t prize-winning stories about the roots of the eruption or its health implications, but an app (Hitchhiker’s Central) that allowed readers to share travel plans and offer rides to each other. history.

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