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

Women on Business

E-commerce solutions offer a low-cost storefront from which to launch your electronic medical records venture. Jersey City , NJ New Jersey is putting its money on the state’s public infrastructure, leading the nation in per-capita funding for transportation. Capture those dollars with an electronic medical records business.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Ethics Global business Retail' How did this happen?

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. How would it integrate into the culture of the larger organization? The first step was to hire someone to run it.