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Thriving During an Economic Downturn :: Women on Business

Women on Business

She is also moving into a bigger space in her building at a bargain price! As a business owner, I suggest you talk with your landlord about rent prices, you may be surprised to find out they are willing to lower your rent just to ensure you stay around.

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How I Discovered My Leadership Secret Weapon

Terry Starbucker

As another calendar year drew to a close, while our cable TV company was buoyed by better sales numbers as a result of new service activations and stepped up marketing, we were still struggling to reverse a downward overall trend. Our competitors offered more channels at a very competitive price, and were able to mass market.

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Good Times Goodbye, Hello Deflation!

Coaching Tip

The declines followed news from the Census Bureau that median household income in 2010 fell to $49,445, the lowest in more than a decade, while the poverty rate jumped to 15.1 Stock market losses are eroding personal wealth. Take-home pay, adjusted for inflation, fell 0.3 just reported. percent, a 17-year high. Christopher Jr.,

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Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab

Harvard Business Review

Amazon’s relentless price testing in the online world anchors its competitive advantage. Its unrivaled base of knowledge allows it to use price as a communications tool, a recruiting tool, a psychological weapon, and a value driver in ways that transcend the basic mechanics of supply and demand and profit and loss.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C ” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. °C (3.8°F) Getting to 1.5

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. This expansion isn't just domestic.

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Technology-based companies can drive transformation in many existing markets of course – just look at the battles brewing between traditional taxi companies and Uber, a mobile app that connects passengers with drivers. In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.