Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering. It was going to be, what Katie terms, ‘a revolving closet for every woman in America.’ That was all that we had in mind as we started off on this. We are still waiting to see how it will all pan out.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2020

To take the skills you’ve spent decades honing and go into business with yourself, taking on the industry on your own terms and shattering the ceiling that your current job places over your pay and prospects? There are even new tools hitting the market that already have IoT technology built in. That is, after all, the dream isn’t it?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma. However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

For your business to be a success, you need to make both short and long-term plans. The chances are high that they have switched to a more relationship-based model that uses technology to improve their customer experience and loyalty. You can incentivize your customers to buy more from you by offering bundles and discounts.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 2, 2010

  However, their thoughts and opinions are often considered naive and discounted or disregarded altogether.  Ann Bares, Compensation Force : Using Long Term Incentives to Retain Top Sales Performers - The world of sales is often one of short term perspectives.    Enjoy! .  Not

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Too many people use ‘offer options’ as code for ‘offer discounts’ , but they can often be counter-productive. Earning a customer’s trust is beneficial both short, and long-term, and failing to do so is damaging to your profits. Can customers use a variety of options to pay you, be it PayPal, credit card or Bitcoin?

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If you want your business to be a success, you need to make a long-term commitment to it, so you’d better make sure it’s something that you truly feel passionate about. Networking can lead to future opportunities in terms of help, advice and business, as well as creating a supportive network of like-minded individuals.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, super discounters such as Aldi, Lidl, and Amazon are further squeezing already thin food retail margins for large retailers. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Investing in new technology can reduce excess inventory and handling, and cut down on the amount of perishables that ultimately go to waste.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2011

Most fail far short of the owners’ ambitions. This insightful book makes three points clear: The key to long term business success is for the leader to declare war on him/herself so that the company never rests on its laurels. There are millions of companies in the world. But there are really only four. How can that be?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Scientists are still trying to determine the long-term effects of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In terms of implications, our study reveals a major conflict between worker safety and globalization, as a policy commitment to economic openness may come at the cost of more industrial accidents.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

In short, your inner voice shouldn't berate you any more than your outer voice would address a hardworking employee. Checkbox 4: Are you being "Macromyopic" and overdramatizing the short-term impact of the mistake? Don't sweat it — you're going to nail the next one.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

billion to Google just a few short months ago, in November of 2010. The benefits of Groupon (discounted prices and access to vendors you may not have known about) are largely optional or discretionary — it isn't the kind of service one uses for essential goods and services. Groupon is poised for its debut as a public company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." He and his co-author proposed a new causal mechanism that explained the surprising failure of highly-regarded companies. That's not to say that there haven't been success stories.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

And as Clayton Christensen described in The Innovator’s Dilemma , it can be very difficult for management teams and their organizations to acknowledge that the paradigm around them has changed, and instead of responding in an adaptive manner, too many organizations redouble their investments in legacy business models or technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

There are three important things I will take away from this year: The West is overly discounting Asia's growth potential. Singapore is positioning itself as the global exchange, where West meets East and where India and China are both reachable via relatively short direct flights.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Amara’s law teaches us that we tend to overestimate the amount of change in the short term but under-estimate it in the long term.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2014

The publishing industry is not one of the overachievers in terms of its use of big data. In short, some dramatic change is necessary for publishers to succeed. And they can probably get them at a discount! Customers Information & technology' The goal of any publisher is to get its content bought and read.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Why discount prices when you won’t get more customers? Why not raise rates and use the revenues to build new facilities, hire new staff, and acquire new clinical technology? The Long-Term Goal. The lack of price sensitivity on the demand side of the health care market cannot but influence strategies on the supply side.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. They don’t rationally-discount it, save it all, or give up their jobs in the hope of a handout.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. The cycle time for new technology has compressed and will continue to do so. Are we risking institutional ageism when we discount tenure in this way?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. But haven't we heard this before?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Or, to use the legal term, you license their use. The short answer is through terms-of-service agreements and other click wrap. The short answer to that last question? Courts have so far upheld license terms that forbid resale against arguments that they violate "first sale." You rent them. How does that happen?

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. With today's technology and the affordability of websites, anyone can start a business from home. Factor in start-up costs, daily expenses and taxes into your budget. That's okay!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

It's true that new technologies are empowering consumers in new ways. 4) Short term project completed. Justin, as we'd like to keep your business, I can offer you a discount and also waive your subscription fee for 2 months. Yeah, right. Pulling one over on customers is harder than it used to be. .: 8) Too costly.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

So do not be discouraged to learn that we start with something called the stochastic discount factor , which Campbell describes as the central idea of modern asset-pricing theory. Many lay readers are familiar with John Burr Williams and the dividend discount model , or the discounted value of future cash flows.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. But digital technologies now being deployed by German automakers promise to save them $100 million per new car launch on average by integrating design and change data more closely with the production process. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

IT professionals need to recognize and embrace the Serendipity Economy in order to better understand the impact of technology investments, improve employee engagement and drive business transformation. Technology investments work the same way. Serendipity into Performance. The measure of value requires external validation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Instead, they treat it ad hoc, one question at a time, over a short period of time. Regarding the first point, we found that many MNCs fall short in four areas: Their processes for determining and changing prices are too rigid , which means they are not set up to respond quickly enough to currency and other changes in local conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Much has been made of the fact that a new breed of financial technology (or fintech) companies is unbundling banks in the developed world. One example from the developed world is Uber’s Xchange , which allows drivers to participate in very-short-term leasing programs (just a few months) and requires little money up front.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

Firms value accurate demand forecasts because inventory is expensive to keep on shelves and stockouts are detrimental to both short-term revenue and long-term customer engagement. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. Should you explore new technologies that will disrupt current products?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

But at the same time, your advice may be heavily discounted – the world has changed since you were job-hunting as a new grad, and your kid may not see that you realize that. Money, which includes base salary, bonus potential, and perhaps equity or long-term compensation. This the Career Triangle.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

trillion in purchasing power parity , it was the third-largest (in PPP terms) and the fastest-growing large economy in the world. Such processes are not easy to do and ought to be guided by experts in economics, business, and technology paired with experts in policy execution.

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