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Health, Wellness, and a Giveaway to WomenonBusiness Readers

Women on Business

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. In 2007, Vosges-Haut Chocolat generated nearly $12 million in sales. Katrina Markoff launched her gourmet chocolate company in 1998.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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

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subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. To the general public, it has come to epitomize the dysfunction of Wall Street—the greed, risk and lack of ethics that drove profits over the last twenty years, but went relatively ignored until the recent collapse.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

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How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Statistics Tree: Understanding Figures and What They Symbolize, Relating Directly to Your Business Success

Strategy Driven

According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. Employee theft and shoplifting accounting for 15% of the retail cost of merchandise. In 2011, the Department of Commerce estimated that there were 27.5 35% of employees steal from the company.

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The Big Picture of Business – Planning and Budgeting in Downsized Times

Strategy Driven

Product-service movement at retail levels. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Downtime rates and meantime between downtimes. Meantime between billings and collections. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels. Inventory costs. Consider leaving a comment!