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5 Things Every Business Leader Should Know About Social Media

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 5 Things Every Business Leader Should Know About Social Media by Starbucker on January 24, 2010 It’s the new elephant in the room. Bret Simmons January 24, 2010 at 10:57 pm Excellent, Terry. Popularity: 8% [ ?

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Warning Signs from the Chinese Stock Market

Harvard Business Review

And right now, the Chinese stock market continues to flash multiple warning signs of a sharp economic slowdown. Since November of 2010, FXI has fallen off a high of $48 to a current price in the mid-$30 range and has fallen as low as $28 over the last year.

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The Cure for the Not-for-Profit Crisis

Harvard Business Review

have dropped by billions — down 11% in 2010 alone, according to a recent report from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. There is a crisis in the not-for-profit sector.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. But these forms of external turbulence tend to be the trigger of free fall, not the cause.

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

As the expert panel commissioned to come up with the 2010 dietary guidelines for the US Department of Agriculture noted, the scientific evidence for something you would think would be critical to our understanding of obesity, was “ disappointing.”. Where should all this go in our minds?”.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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The Social and Political Costs of the Financial Crisis, 10 Years Later

Harvard Business Review

The combination of increased expenditures and decreased revenues resulting from the crisis from 2008 to 2010 is likely to cost the United States government well over $2 trillion , more than twice the cost of the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan. When the government rescued major American banks, it did not fire even one of their CEOs.

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