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Retirement and Your Finances – From the Women on Business Archives

Women on Business

The start of a new year is a great time to re-evaluate your finances and retirement savings plan. With that in mind, I thought it would also be a good time to take a trip through the Women on Business archives to find some great articles about retirement and finances that you might have missed.

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Spin vs. Sorry: How to Mess Up Well & Become Authentic

Great Leadership By Dan

In October 2012, their baby wipes were selling great, largely through Amazon’s subscription program, which allows customers to set a schedule for automatically replenishing their supply. The more you do this, the more calloused your audience becomes. Maybe some people call that an apology. And the more your credibility crumbles.

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Big Pharma's Mixed Modes of Growth

Harvard Business Review

In March 2012, for example, Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi-Aventis, told an audience at the CED Life Sciences Conference that "the best people who have great ideas in science don't want to work for a big company. if you want to work with the best people, you're going to have go outside your own company".

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The Rise of the Mobile-Only User

Harvard Business Review

According to Pew Internet , 55 percent of Americans said they''d used a mobile device to access the internet in 2012. This is a large and growing audience whose needs aren''t being met by traditional desktop experiences. If you''re trying to reach specific audiences, you can''t afford to ignore mobile-only users.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business Review

Since the advent of agricultural chemicals in the nineteenth century, a variety of people have warned of risks to public health and the environment, but these people largely struggled to attract an audience until the late 1960s, when organic farming, natural food stores and organic food start-ups started to gain traction. The Turnaround.

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End the Chaos: A Better Approach to Business Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

As she navigated through spreadsheets and dashboard screens — each created by a different person for a different purpose — the only constant was the title of the report, "2012 Actuals." Thus a broad audience of users can build and maintain re-usable reports on a common platform. thus inviting Bill to annotate his report.

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The Unique Value of Crowdfunding Is Not Money — It’s Community

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Palmer Luckey, a member of a VR community message board, mentioned that he wanted to launch a Kickstarter project to raise crowdfunding for a new virtual reality headset he had been tinkering with, the Oculus Rift. Watch a bit of Lawnmower Man if you want to cringe at the 1990s version of VR).