Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Home-based businesses are a great way for busy people to take more control of their careers , but starting your own business can be intimidating. Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. As a startup, your finances will likely be very thin as is.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

There is a lot of advice out there about keeping your online activity from hurting your career. To make the most of social media to further your career, you need to make a conscious choice to use it for professional purposes, understand what your goals are, and then actively manage your digital footprint. But there's a flip side.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

One such example was a young man who was on my team with a Ph. When I asked him to do research for me on case studies that proved our concepts in a practical manner, he brought me a textbook and asked me to "define" what I meant by practical, as he was looking up terms I was using and couldn't find them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Almost every high-performing health care organization we studied was led by a medical professional (something that academic research has also found ). He was 58 and already retired from an illustrious career in ophthalmology when he founded the nonprofit Aravind Eye Hospital in 1976. Another example of a doctorpreneur is Atul Gawande.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

If your boss says you aren’t taking enough risks, ask, “Can you give me an example of a time when I should have taken the initiative but didn’t? Make it clear you want concrete examples of what you should be doing differently. Case Study #1: Clarify in order to move forward. What might you have done?”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging for even the most ambitious and focused person. In today's work world, careers take numerous twists and turns and the future is often murky. You have to clarify for yourself what you aspire to do with your career before you can communicate it confidently to others.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. What made their ascent possible?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

This can be a powerful win-win that provides customers with verification, a learning tool, and a basis for building best practices, while providing a case study or success story for you. It's great career development for them.". So I'm willing to do what I can to help you grow your customer base. Create a customer council.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

For example, you may want to be a brain surgeon, but not have the eye-hand coordination required." Weintraub suggests you also make sure the skill is relevant to your career, your organization, or both. Case study #1: Learn by trial and error. Case study #2: Experiment with different approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Think about how you really use your memory for things that matter to you and your career, like in preparing for a speech. Let's say you're a newly appointed manager learning some finance for the first time, and you're trying to improve your recall of many new terms. See the accompany chart for examples of cases where you could use SRS.)

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Competition" has changed when individuals can create value through a centralized network of resources: for example, designing a product from anywhere, producing it through a 3D factory , financing it through community and distribution from anywhere to anywhere. Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

As with any career transition, it’s important to seek advice from those with more experience and expertise than you. Case Study #1: A vague plan is better than no plan. “We were lucky that my husband had a good job and we’d been smart about our finances. Do you have the right temperament?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. The biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is delaying the first step until they have settled on a destination. Case study #1: Create financial flexibility for yourself and commit to an end date. Managing yourself Career planning Professional transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, as a New England Patriots fan I am quite aware that Tom Brady will be working on Thanksgiving. Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? For example, as a New England Patriots fan I am quite aware that Tom Brady will be working on Thanksgiving.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

My experience with Target should bolster anyone's case that you can be a committed A-player executive, a good parent, an attentive spouse, a healthy person with time for hobbies — yes, hobbies! The example I was setting before was work first, work first, work first.". "I His wife is a finance director at another company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Heres an example of a "why" reflection item: "Are we really just here to sell more sugar water? For example, if youre just here to sell sugar-water, then "innovating" slightly new flavors of soda every few months, and finding novel markets to "sell" it in (read: competencies in product innovation and mass marketing) is probably good enough.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green. Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Heres a simple but compelling example. Heres a simple but compelling example. Often, judgment must be exercised jointly by multiple parties who may not even recognize themselves as being on the same team or part of the same enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

And clear reporting in this sphere is so rare that I am aware of only one example. And clear reporting in this sphere is so rare that I am aware of only one example. It was written in 1996 by Michael Kinsley, and is still instructive today. It was written in 1996 by Michael Kinsley, and is still instructive today.

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