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Small Business Resolutions for 2011

Coaching Tip

So, get started as soon as possible in 2011, and try to have the major kinks worked out of your new strategy by the beginning of 2012. Instead, you can resolve in 2012 to refine your new business model and harvest a higher levels of growth and profits. . Then you won't have to repeat 2011's resolutions.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. compared to new product launches with the SaaS model.

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Is Rooftop Solar Finally Good Enough to Disrupt the Grid?

Harvard Business Review

But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. In the case of distributed energy, various financing options let consumers save in a number of ways. from 2012 through 2014.

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MOOCs Won’t Replace Business Schools — They’ll Diversify Them

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few years, business school administrators — like other university officials — have been losing sleep over Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs), worrying that these low-cost digital alternatives will cannibalize their business model. This includes a demographic survey with over 65,000 responses.

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo. It isn’t only the branded pundits who are neglecting these issues.

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Mobile Money Is Driving Africa’s Cashless Future

Harvard Business Review

Many companies are taking advantage of this opportunity to steer emerging African economies toward a mobile-driven, cashless (or cash lite) future by introducing a slew of new products, services, and business models. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012.

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When You Should Seek Capital from an Impact Investor

Harvard Business Review

And despite the Global Impact Investing Network's recent report that over $8 billion was invested by impact investors in 2012, it is still common to hear a lot of complaints from both sides: investors bemoan the lack of quality deal flow and social entrepreneurs say it's difficult to find interested investors. Your business model is stable.