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Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

Maintain a positive attitude to show that you can help your employees rise above any personal or professional problems or conflicts at work by offering constructive feedback and avoiding harsh or critical reprimands. Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable. All rights reserved.

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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.”. Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. Then in 2013, he made a big gamble on a how. Or as David Brooks has written , “most people don’t form a self and then lead a life.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Recently introduced reforms to give agricultural firms better access to finance aim to help farmers buy and import equipment to increase their output – and this could be a boon to global manufacturers.

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Female Entrepreneurs Go Beyond "Cookies and Crafts"

Harvard Business Review

Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Forbes called 2013 the " Year of the Female Founder." Today, the greatest number of multimillion-dollar women-owned businesses are in wholesale trade (20%), finance/insurance (12%), and transportation/warehousing (11%). In 1977, only 4.5%

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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Rethinking Sustainability in Light of the EU’s New Circular Economy Policy

Harvard Business Review

Our first example, JLG Industries, is a globally recognized manufacturer of lift equipment used in construction and maintenance. JLG jump-started its CE execution in 2013 by launching an asset management program, which established a predictable flow of used assets and justified investment in a scalable refurbishment facility.