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Health, Wellness, and a Giveaway to WomenonBusiness Readers

Women on Business

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. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.

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

Women on Business

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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Lessons from the Best Global Brands 2010: Building trust and.

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Social Media UY says: January 11, 2011 at 11:31 am [.] Dickens Jr.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. 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. How did this happen?

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. Despite five years of explicit and repeated warnings, the executive team and the board of directors were remarkably slow to see the breadth and gravity of this fraud, and to address it effectively.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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