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Wal-Mart Leadership Sweeps $24 Million of Bribes Under the Rug

Coaching Tip

In The New York Times of April 22, 2012, a former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. T he former executive gave names, dates and bribe amounts. But some executives saw Mexico as a country where bribery was embedded in the business culture.

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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The Big Picture of Business – Developing The Talent for Business to Succeed

Strategy Driven

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Running the business. Business development. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Sales Still Matters More than Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Walter Frick, an HBR editor, contrasts the enthusiasm of executives for spending money on digital initiatives versus their relatively unsupportive boards. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people in sales occupations in 2012 was virtually the same as in 1992—before the rise of the internet. are picking up steam.”

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

To borrow a telecom industry metaphor, a deal with a customer is the “last mile” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and marketplace results. But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. But a market never buys anything. Only customers buy.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, even in the midst of an anemic global economy and budget tightening at firms, the amount spent on these events worldwide was an estimated $565 billion. Three of five marketers use no tools to measure event ROI, and most companies plan and execute events without specific business objectives.

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