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Accelerators Need To Do More To Foster Connections

The Horizons Tracker

The research examined 56,000 patents granted between 1969 and 2012 from American universities with incubator programs. Such programs typically offer budding start-ups coaching, networking, facilities and even finance to help them on their way.

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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

CoachStation provides consulting and business advisory, coaching / mentoring and human resource related offerings. in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012. Industries we have worked within include finance, architecture, recruitment, health, government and local council.

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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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Beyond Tribalism – Book Review

Rapid BI

Anyone with a passion for organizational design, organizational efficiency, human resources and certainly public sector leaders and policy makers! That identity and communities of origin should change to communities of aspiration - increasingly important in the connected 2012 and beyond. Who is the book aimed at? Worth a Read?

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Don't Waste Your Time Telling Employees How to Vote

Harvard Business Review

The 2012 batch includes CEOs sending memos explaining whose platform they think will help the organization thrive (and encouraging employees to vote accordingly, lest jobs be lost) and even one who sent his people to a rally. Unbelievably, every time, they find some. What they don't understand is that the process can work the other way.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.

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It’s Better to Avoid a Toxic Employee than Hire a Superstar

Harvard Business Review

One 2012 CareerBuilder survey found that 41% of the nearly 2,700 employers surveyed estimated that a bad hire could cost $25,000 , while a quarter believed it was much higher—$50,000 or more.