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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

Describing the offerings of your services, the product life cycles, intellectual properties as well as the research and development procedures of your business. Purchasing an Insurance Policy. Growing and Developing an Effective Team. Clearly mentioning the funding requirements with the specified amount and its typecast.

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

Harvard Business Review

Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs. We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. The Three Approaches. Two Success Stories.

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Why an Activist Hedge Fund Cares Whether Apple’s Devices Are Bad for Kids

Harvard Business Review

The truth is that the worlds of activism and impact investing are converging much more swiftly than most people realize — and this union holds enormous promise for those who wish to see the creation of capital markets that support sustainable economic development. A main explanation is that, as always, they are following the money.

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How to Hire More Top Performers

Harvard Business Review

AllianceBernstein (AB), a $3 billion asset management company based in Manhattan, rates each of its 3,700 employees every year on both performance and potential. Only the arrival of a new CEO led to a change in the policy — and an eventual uptick in the company’s talent base and performance.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business Review

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. Examples of tactics within these categories include price-point policies (such as ending a price with the digit 9), in-store or website signage, coupons, and a good/better/best assortment mix.

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The Power of Beliefs to Move Markets and Mindsets

Harvard Business Review

Our suggestion: instead of passively accepting that the market is always right, investors, managers and boards of directors need to think in terms of how they can actively make it more efficient. This is the way both to achieve higher returns and make the market more efficient.