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Health, Wellness, and a Giveaway to WomenonBusiness Readers

Women on Business

We’re having a giveaway for a $75 gift certificate to any product (out of the millions of items available) from CSN Stores. This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers.

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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. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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How Retailers Can Appeal to Lower-Income Shoppers

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail. Retailers face several challenges as they enter the 2011 holiday season. Many retailers are responding with across-the-board price promotion strategies. One such category was over-the-counter family planning products, better known as birth control.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org are taking a look back at the most popular blog posts of the year to find out what most preoccupied you, our readers. HBR's 11 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011. Do you perpetuate these productivity-destroying falsehoods at your company? You don't have to sell Apple products.).

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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

A laser-sharp strategy is much more practical, productive, and economical. He is also CEO of Max-Ventures, a venture capital and retail consulting firm, and founder and CEO of Max-Wellness, a comprehensive health and wellness retail chain that launched in 2010. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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The Cracks are Starting to Show at Apple

Harvard Business Review

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Tim Cook's career followed a very different path. Employees on the factory floor and in the retail stores are on the move, and it's not a completely positive journey. No wonder Apple retail employees receiving about $12 an hour are scratching their heads at the obvious inequity.