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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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Leadership is About Engagement

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Leadership is About Engagement by Kevin Eikenberry on December 29, 2010 in Leadership , Learning , Relationships Ok, this title should be self evident, especially to long time readers of this blog. It is a great model as well.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. Higher education (Apple is already on its way to transforming that with iBooks Author and the iPad). No iPad mini at all.

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Does Customer Prejudice Help Drive the Employment Gap Between White and Black Americans?

Harvard Business Review

The idea of customer discrimination influencing the labor market stems from the economic theory of taste-based discrimination, or when some individuals prefer not to interact with people from certain demographics. Consumer discrimination in the labor market has not been extensively studied, but other research has borne this out.

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

Investing at scale : In 2008, Goldman Sachs shifted its philanthropic giving from a traditional portfolio of education grants to multi-year initiatives focused on economic empowerment and job creation among under served small business owners. Early results are encouraging.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Women: The New Voices of Unions

Women on Business

With the stock market tumbling in 2008, much of their pension funds have been underfunded for years and the pressure to work more quickly and for no increase in compensation and sometimes lack of benefits is causing her great frustration. In 2010, Mary Kay was elected as the president and vows to “heal” her union. She says. “We

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