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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. Pick the right target demo in a crowded market. On June 2 nd , 2004, we opened. Now, when we go to markets, there are specific names that come to mind as we look at clothes.

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

Strategy Driven

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%. Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. Amazon's price-to-earnings ratio is now 2,767. There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure.

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What Chinese Companies Want from International Deals

Harvard Business Review

Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Geely launched new models at around double the price of its other cars. Access to mature global markets. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. Fostering innovation.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

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

Harvard Business Review

Every year since 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a report on the state of competition in the wireless market. Or, if not, what negative effect its dubious conclusions might have on regulatory policy in wireless markets. If firms are not exercising market power, competition reigns.