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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. This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. This needs to change.

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The Not-So-Secret Secrets to Making It Big: Five Surprisingly Doable Steps That Will Propel You to the Top

Strategy Driven

You can afford to invest in developing someone who is interested in developing. To help prevent this, develop a short-term plan with a six- to nine-month outlook. Also, create a longer-term plan with a seventeen- to eighteen-month strategy. A leader’s job is to make people think and discover alternatives.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, marketing wants to clearly quantify the impact of its long-term branding efforts while finance is more focused on macro-economic drivers of marketing performance, such as interest rates, employment levels, inflation and retail sales. Inside Intel. Organizational Anachronisms Exposed. It’s completely reframed the conversation.”

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Make Your Organization Anti-Fragile

Harvard Business Review

If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula. retailer, spent the last three decades improving its supply chain processes, and designing and launching a series of services, including smaller local convenience stores and online shopping. Start-ups tend to be anti-fragile; large, successful organizations tend to be fragile.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well.