Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

It costs 5 to 10 times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one. Let me share a few statistics to support this point: 65% of your business comes from existing customers—over half of your business is repeat customers—or at least it should be.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

This is a change from the 2010 law which based taxation of inherited assets on their original cost basis, instead of their current fair market value. million exemption and additional $3 million for married couples on inherited assets before the original cost basis rule would apply). The Bush law did allow a $1.3

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. E-commerce solutions offer a low-cost storefront from which to launch your electronic medical records venture. Capture those dollars with an electronic medical records business.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 15, 2011

So if the economy has got you worried about the need to cut prices in order to get business, it’s time to arm yourself with some very good advice and reconsider the cost-cutting strategy. These authors offer ten rules for pricing, the most important of which is Rule #10 — Price With Confidence.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

6 Best Tips to Online Cost Effective Marketing Is your business experiencing stagnation with the Recession? Even though we are bombarded with thousands of emails per. The Most Effective Way to Improve Your Marketing We are just past the midpoint of the second quarter.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Cost containment is one (but not the only) factor of company operations. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Instill discipline.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 4, 2011

Keeping your word is part of showing integrity, so be sure to follow through with your promises at all costs. Of course, infidelity is the ultimate cheat that many parents do not consider the circumstances before making a decision to violate a marital contract. Keep your promises. A child’s memory is unbelievable.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). These managers also bring a valuable perspective to the table.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. There are very few people who have at some point in their lives not taken up a caregiver’s role. In the U.S.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

As a backlash against increasingly international trends, relationships matter more. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage. When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. However starting in the 1980's, many companies evolved to "functional" structures to cut costs and reduce duplication.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The same can be true if you are in an engineering job without the right credentials, or a senior finance job without an MBA or an advanced degree in finance. The likes of New York Times ' Thomas Friedman and Richard Pérez-Peña agree that trend is only going to continue. I just didn't have the time to get an MBA."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

The head of operations chimed in: His five most recent checkouts had complained about breakfast, and the cost of compensating guests for disappointing experiences was getting out of control. The director of finance grumbled that overtime costs were too high, due to high turnover and the fact that employee sick time had spiked.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

It augers great benefits to leaders that have a strong human capital story to tell with numbers, and poses dilemmas for those not prepared to measure their human capital and organizational capability more precisely. Performance measurement Data Human resource management' This is no fringe movement.

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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 , “As technology makes data-driven HR decision-making a possibility, 77 percent of executives now rate people analytics as a key priority, up slightly from last year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

competitiveness strikes a pessimistic tone about certain demographic facts — the education gap between young people and the jobs which are and will be available, the aging of the American population, and the related rise in health care costs. In the context of a not-yet-entirely-settled system of healthcare finance in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The result was often a global organization bogged down with redundancy, additional costs, and a fragmented corporate culture. trillion in 2014 alone.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

I see far too many data that don’t go anywhere and that’s just a cost.”. Point solutions, such as focusing on the call center, the store, or the website, no longer cut it in a multichannel environment, not when delivering excellent customer journeys can increase revenues up to 15 percent and cut costs by up to 20 percent.

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