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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

Thorough market research will always lead you towards a realization of your consumer behaviour, customer base, and diverse economic trends. Cooperatives. Additionally, you can also collect various demographic information of your customers like age, height, weight, preferences, property value, family members. Partnership.

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In Morgan’s Cooper explains it this way: “Many companies are waking up to the incredible amount of untapped talent that has left Wall Street firms.” And last week J.P.

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When He Retires and She Still Works, What Happens?

Harvard Business Review

At age 48, in 2004, I decided to leave my great job as a mutual fund manager to co-found an asset management firm. They acknowledged that non-work experiences with their spouses were important and necessary diversions, good for their marriages, and often intellectually broadening.

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