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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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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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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. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business Review

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. This second transformation will be triggered not by regulation but by rapidly evolving technology. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology.

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported on Google’s algorithm that crunched data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories to determine which employees are most likely to quit, and more recently Google was lauded for pioneering the use of big data to predict employee turnover. Would they be delighted or disturbed?