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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Other ideas: donate your expertise as an award, speak at the local library or school, and interview local officials to report for newsletters.

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High Frequency Trading: Threat or Menace?

Harvard Business Review

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. Together, we've constructed school libraries, repaired churches, built roads, and, crucially, ensured clean water through new aqueduct systems. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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End the Chaos: A Better Approach to Business Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

When Bill in Finance generates his monthly Top Line report, Craig in Marketing can leave a comment on the "Revenue" column inquiring, "Is this billed revenue or booked revenue?" Janet is using collaborative BI to build what we're calling a "common report library" at her company. thus inviting Bill to annotate his report.