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

Women on Business

Other ideas: donate your expertise as an award, speak at the local library or school, and interview local officials to report for newsletters. Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling. Any side-door approach is going to take time and research.

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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What Makes New Orleans a Startup City to Rival the “Big Three”

Harvard Business Review

From The New York Public Library. based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s to live on the sort of shoestring budget that startups demand.

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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). However, my Kindle allows me to keep a library at hand. Teddy Roosevelt was rumored to actually read two books a day. And the batter is like the energizer bunny.

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