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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

Often this meant trying to read Mapquest directions while driving on a highway or in the dark.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. It starts with employees who have been trained in the science of service.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model.

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3 Questions About AI That Nontechnical Employees Should Be Able to Answer

Harvard Business Review

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization. What is it good at?

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

Without an understanding of basic financial concepts, executives are not well-equipped to make decisions related to financial management. managers are uninformed about the basics of financial literacy to face the challenges of the future. Why is financial literacy at all levels of management a basic need?

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Why Labor Protests in France Won’t Stop Macron’s Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Students, workers, and retirees are protesting, targeting trains, airlines, retirement homes, universities, and government offices. In 1995 a train strike paralyzed France and forced the government to back down from its proposed reform of the railway sector. However, this time, things seem different. GDP grew by 1.9%

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The late Julian Simon (better known, perhaps, for his optimistic views about population growth and resource abundance) thought up the idea for having airlines auction off overbooked seats and persuaded the Civil Aeronautics Board, which used to regulate airlines fares and entry, to permit the idea in the 1970s. Economists and finance.