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People Do Business With You…But Why?

Women on Business

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” 3 Secrets that Differentiate Successful Women Entrepreneurs from the Crowd of Average Business People Guest post by Alex Papa (learn more about Alex at. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Many times it doesn’t seem clearly defined.

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THE GAUNTLET HAS BEEN THROWN DOWN

Women in the LEAD

  Business, professionals, academics, innovators, entrepreneurs, governments and public bodies alike have to care and have to take up these challenges practically. We need to find different models for social and economic progress or face repercussions and continued cyclical economic time bombs. 

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so. As of 2010, only 2.4%

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Indian Tales of Inclusive Business Models

Harvard Business Review

At the 2010 India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum in New Delhi we facilitated a workshop entitled "Innovating More with Less for More" where C-level execs shared best practices which their companies have adopted to enable inclusive growth in India. Dr. Simone Ahuja is the CEO and founder of Blood Orange Media.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's " Decade of Innovation." For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Transformers.

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Requiring Companies to Disclose Climate Risks Helps Everyone

Harvard Business Review

Nobel laureate Herbert Simon’s model of bounded rationality in decision making explains how this could work. In Simon’s model, decision makers face costs when taking an action, and this makes them stick to “business as usual.”