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Entrepreneur Jake Thompson Shares His Story, Advice, And What's In Store For CED In 2015

Eric Jacobson

I am truly humbled by the emails, Instagram/Facebook posts, and calls our team receives from people who were touched or inspired by a social media post or shirt we produced. Question : How has social media made it easier for you to be successful at CED? Question : What''s the most challenging thing about being an entrepreneur?

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, called McCord and Hasting’s presentation the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. Adapted from.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines. Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind. There are two ways to set revenue targets. But this is not cause for alarm.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

It certainly has become a media darling for clean tech skeptics. So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity"). The total: 145 million euros.

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How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers

Harvard Business Review

This principle has always been a priority for the leadership team at Vineyard Vines and it is still top of mind today. Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. This cross-channel move resulted in a 182% ROI.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,