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Every Business Is (Or Should Be) a Social Business

Mills Scofield

Social entrepreneurs launching ventures may ask themselves if their business models need to be different. Does pursuing a social purpose require something unique to describe and structure your business? The market has a way of taking care of that. The results? billion people who don’t have it today.

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What's The Future Of Business By Brian Solis

Eric Jacobson

Solis will challenge you to rethink your business models, approach, and customer and employee relationships in order to create amazing, real-world experiences. Here are his answers : Question : When you consider all the Business-To-Consumer (B2C) companies in the U.S., Technology and innovation is only accelerating.

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Box’s CEO on Pivoting to the Enterprise Market

Harvard Business Review

Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, reflects on the cloud storage company’s entry into the enterprise market. But by staying disciplined with the product and deeply understanding market trends, they’ve made the strategic shift from B2C to B2B work. He was skeptical about pivoting away from consumers, and it was challenging.

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Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The innovation came about because Laird aspired to surf a deepwater reef break on the north shore of Maui called Peahi, or Jaws, where waves can reach 120 feet high. Another telltale sign of category creation is that it comes with a distinctive business model and profit model. But coffee has seen other innovations, too.

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Every Business Is (Or Should Be) a Social Business

Harvard Business Review

Social entrepreneurs launching ventures may ask themselves if their business models need to be different. Does pursuing a social purpose require something unique to describe and structure your business? The market has a way of taking care of that. The results? billion people who don't have it today.

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The Fine Line Between When Low Prices Work and When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Don’t engage in over-the-top discounting that trains customers, both in B2C and B2B markets, to buy cleverly on price and price alone. The choice of the price position affects the overall business model, the product quality, branding, and how to innovate. Don’t start price wars. Don’t fight them.

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Top Line Growth? There's an App for That

Harvard Business Review

They spent a lot of time "testing the waters," "experimenting," and "building prototypes," while younger, nimbler companies took to the web with ease, shattering established business models along the way. Amazon, and eBay in B2C commerce and Covisint and GS1 in B2B. Think of Yahoo!,

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