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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom.

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. 2 Comments 1 Jen Gresham December 13th, 2010 at 12:00 pm Interesting post. Female leaders need to recognize that taking time off is part and parcel of taking proper care of themselves.

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

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Become Businessperson of the Year

Harvard Business Review

Fortune recently named its Businesspersons of the Year for 2010 , and the list was, for the most part, predictable. When Carlos Ghosn passionately promotes the all-electric Nissan Leaf while aggressively pushing advances with conventional internal-combustion engine vehicles , you know you're looking at a new type of leadership.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

The EU’s antitrust regulator charged Google for abuse of its position as the dominant search engine to promote its own businesses, while the European Parliament even voted in favor of breaking up Google. Engine, a startup advocacy, completes the picture with its assessment that 4.3 tech companies.

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