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

Strategy Driven

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. If you will not buy for yourself a specific product, don’t try to sell it. Cómo consigue una marca la confianza de sus (potenciales) clientes | Soy Digital 2011 says: January 3, 2011 at 5:14 pm [.]

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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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Wells Fargo and the Slippery Slope of Sales Incentives

Harvard Business Review

Stumpf said in an earlier statement: “We are eliminating product sales goals because we want to make certain our customers have full confidence that our retail bankers are always focused on the best interests of customers.” Large-scale unethical sales practices often begin with minor ethical compromises.

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

Strategy Driven

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. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Statistics Tree: Understanding Figures and What They Symbolize, Relating Directly to Your Business Success

Strategy Driven

One-third of the Gross National Product is sent each year toward cleaning up mistakes, rework, make-goods, corrective action and correcting defects. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. Failures are the surest tracks toward future successes.