Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

By testing your marketing campaign, you gain more time, money and experience for future projects. 6 Best Tips to Online Cost Effective Marketing Is your business experiencing stagnation with the Recession? Whatever you do, keep in mind that ongoing testing is critical to your company’s success in the future.

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Marketing Press Release Direct Marketing Discount 162

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 16, 2018

These pastries cost more than the oatmeal he’d okayed on the budget. And the pastries didn’t cost much more than the oatmeal. You will cut corners where there’s no room to cut or get inferior products which will cost more in time and labor than if you would have purchased high-quality tools. Know your lines.

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Leadership Budgeting Technology Learning-by-Doing 121

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The Relational Leader : A Revolutionary Framework to Engage Your Team (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010) by Frank McIntosh The Relational Leader presents a framework to use as a compass point so that you can project a consistent message and methodology to your people. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital.

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Finance Cost of Capital Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital.

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Finance Cost of Capital Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years?

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Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

A generation of economists, finance theorists, business school professors, and would-be governance experts has embraced the notion that companies exist only to maximize "shareholder value.". Most human projects, from eating lunch, to buying a house, choosing a career, and setting life goals, measure success along many dimensions.

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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Ultimately, it means having an open, transparent performance-with-integrity culture that encourages but bounds business risk and that does not cut legal or ethical corners to make the numbers.

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Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage. To reinvent the wheel is time-consuming. Even the most successful empire-builders found shoulders to stand on!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

These are typically specific, functional abilities like project management, web development, financial analysis — or advisory skills that come from years of experience. Underestimating costs that employers typically take out of your paycheck or cover is “the biggest thing that bites people,” she says.

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Planning Outsourcing Case Study Consultative 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

The company which makes the small investment on the front end (consulting) saves higher costs. Research shows that consulting fees foregone are multiplied six-fold in opportunity costs each year that action is put off. How do they meet deadlines, initiate projects and offer ideas beyond the obvious?

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

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Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Mapping out detailed project plans? Over the last year blogs at US News , Daily Finance , Forbes , and articles like this one in the New York Times have questioned the work ethic and entitlement mentality of generation Y. Seeing the big picture? Delegating?

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Management Cooper Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Challenges of this frame: Be wary of pricing everything that moves in the environment and focusing too much on costs. Whether in politics, finance, or business, there is growing concern that many leaders have lost their moral compass. Expand the focus from today’s business case for action to tomorrow’s business models.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. government. “A

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Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, Apple says that whenever it finds an underage worker in its supply chain, it sends the child home safely, continues paying his or her wages, and even finances the child’s education and offers employment once doing so is legal. Many companies claim to adhere to strict policies about child labor. More diligence is possible.

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Supply Chain Company Ethics Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Of course, this comes at the cost of passing said pain to someone else. (We From a strictly evolutionary perspective, there is adaptive significance to the first two “Rs,” even as they are both ethically questionable, even deplorable. Because doing so acts therapeutically upon the initial victim. Ditto for revenge.

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Politics Ethics Reputation Stress 8