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Thoughts on Your Personal and Professional Success in the New Year

Management Excellence

I was truly gifted in 2011 to gain access to and work with and support some remarkable professionals across a number of different market segments…from high tech to professional services to manufacturing, and I learned something with every engagement and encounter.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. This final chapter puts it all together.

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It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

We've extensively analyzed the applications to the Echoing Green fellowship between 2006 and 2011, and built a rich dataset that allows us to rigorously study trends in the field of social enterprise. In 2010 and 2011, almost 50% of the applicants to Echoing Green relied on hybrid models, versus 37% in 2006.

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Oil’s Fall Is a Challenge for Gulf Economies, but Also an Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

The 2000s saw expanding state budgets and welfare payments, in part linked to a decade of rising global oil prices that peaked at a stable range of around $100–110 per barrel between 2011 and mid 2014. Also, after achieving large fiscal surpluses that averaged 12.4% of GDP in 2015 and 2016.

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Top Line Growth? There's an App for That

Harvard Business Review

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. They didn't treat the internet seriously, or if they did, they didn't know how to formulate a strategy once they had moved to the net. Four main factors go into developing and positioning an app strategy: Brand.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Peru's Innovation Drive

Harvard Business Review

The first round of presidential polls on April 10, 2011, set the stage for a June runoff between the leftist Ollanta Humala, a former military commander, and right-winger Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a former Peruvian president who is in jail. Re-imagining value doesn't mean focusing on cost (the denominator).