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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. Instead, she left some of her chocolate samples with the Neiman Marcus buyer, and the next day he called and asked for more, which he left in the company’s break room. Katrina didn’t give up.

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“No idea” Means I Have One :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Sample Script: Making it Conscious, Not Confrontational The set up: You and your team are working together on a presentation that’s due in less than twenty-four hours. As you can see, offering a number of choices at every turn allows those involved to retain some measure of control, which is essential to keeping the situation from escalating.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling. Their advice can be invaluable.

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People Who Graduate During Recessions Earn Less Money — but They’re Happier

Harvard Business Review

When the graduating classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 hit the job market, their employment prospects were depressingly bleak. Nine months after graduation, only 56% of the class of 2010 had found a job. But these tough experiences may have helped shape them into happier, less-self-absorbed, and more-ethical employees.

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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

He did well co-founding Asterand, an ethically sourced human-tissue sampling business, but lost his shirt on a jazz club and a cattle-ranching enterprise to produce low-fat beef. Randal Charlton had great strokes of midlife success — then he didn't.

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Big Pharma's Hidden Business Model and How Your Company Funds It

Harvard Business Review

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. See The Risks of Prescription Drugs (Columbia 2010).

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Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

Using BoardEx data provided by the Center for Corporate Performance, we examined a sample of 1,212 CEOs who led S&P 1500 firms between 2000 and 2010. We measured their firm’s value by Tobin’s Q, a ratio between market value of assets to book value of assets.