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Women's History Month: Acknowledging Six Women Named Alice

Women's Leadership Exchange

s 2010 screenplay Alice delays accepting a marriage proposal to the son of her late father?s fame and Alice Cooper ? s independence, her adventurous nature, courage and what the script calls her muchness. What a mysterious and wonderful word ? So what about Alice and her muchness? Instead she opts to pursue her ? s Restaurant?

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Companies Want to Disclose Employee Health Data to Shareholders, and It’s a Bad Idea

Harvard Business Review

A working group whose members include Humana, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, PepsiCo, Unilever, and South African insurer Discovery recently proposed that publicly traded corporations provide an overview on the health of their workforces in their various forms of public disclosure, including annual reports, 10-Ks, and sustainability reports.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2010, Corelio and Concentra, two European media companies, established Coldset Printing Partners, a joint venture (JV) for their newspaper printing assets. The alternative asset ownership and operation models often involve cooperation with a (potential) competitor, as illustrated by the above examples of 2M, ASML, and Here.

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Daylight Savings Time Observations: We Tend to Go Negative

The Recovering Engineer

Learn More… Comments 4 Responses to “Daylight Savings Time Observations: We Tend to Go Negative&# wl3048 says: March 15, 2010 at 11:35 am Not all Hoosiers look negatively upon DST. Reply MarkSpizer says: May 3, 2010 at 9:05 am great post as usual! Thanks for your comment and for helping me to clarify my point. Never show again.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

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Gun Manufacturers Need to Lead Change, Not Just Follow the Law

Harvard Business Review

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. Debate-producing proposals on curbing gun violence have come from many corners, including the White House. presidential election. Probably not.