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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. Take advantage of the military spending with a civil construction company.

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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

August 2011 HBR. At this moment, the AMIP is placing students from top African, European, and American business schools in highly structured programs with African companies. These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business Review

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Companies such as Ford, Toyota, and Caterpillar have invested heavily as well.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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The Powerful Way Onboarding Can Encourage Authenticity

Harvard Business Review

When a new employee is hired under this typical scenario and shows up the first day, the company tells her what work needs to be done and shows her how to act. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Newcomers were given a badge and fleece sweatshirt with the company’s name on both of them.

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

The web of third party logistics companies is complex and performance is spotty. With limited purchasing power, low credit card usage, and poor delivery networks, it''s clear that the approach for e-commerce in developing markets has to be different than in the U.S. In countries similar to a company''s home market, this can work well.

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. She also took the unusual step of installing three CMOs who could help provide detailed insights into three of the main business groups of the company. Who should lead our transformation? It must be marketing.

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