Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Houston energy magnate Dan Duncan who died earlier this year had an estimated net worth of $9 billion, and television industry mogul John Kluge died with a $6.5 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. billion estate.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Nine investing options that can bring you both immediate and long term profit. Although this article is about short-term investment, you should still build a solid plan for a long-term perspective. There are periods when markets get choppy, and you may lose confidence. Think Long-Term.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

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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. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. The bigger the playing field, the more trust, familiarity, and rapport count.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. In the State of the Union speech last Tuesday , President Obama said that climate change was a fact and touted the growth of solar energy in America. Let’s quickly look at each.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Some are short-term, meant for immediate action and achievement. Others are long-term and involve multiple stepping stones to get there. Where do I see myself in the short term (1-2 years) and long term (5+ years)? For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. So allow me.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

But many don’t have one, instead adopting only defensive, short-term, or narrowly self-interested “government relations” tactics. telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). The stakes are very high. A needed a pproach.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. But what’s the role of investors?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Typically when firms are evaluating investments they look for large addressable markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

When an entrepreneur decides to start a business, there are typically several important tasks at the top of his or her To-Do list, such as writing a business plan, choosing a name, and obtaining financing. Doing so can set a pattern, diminish the long-term value of a product or service, or hurt cash flow (if the sale results in a loss).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

When an entrepreneur decides to start a business, there are typically several important tasks at the top of his or her To-Do list, such as writing a business plan, choosing a name, and obtaining financing. Doing so can set a pattern, diminish the long-term value of a product or service, or hurt cash flow (if the sale results in a loss).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors. The high percentage of proposals on immaterial issues is further evidence that investors aren’t only motivated by short-term profit. Less so for financial institutions or healthcare companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. The problem is that nobody's ever really been able to answer which shareholders, when?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Energy, creativity, and activity are all good things — but they don't create value unless results are achieved. But only athletic events produce clear winners and losers in the short-term — and most organizations are not actively engaged in those. You either achieve your goals or you don't.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s one of the hazards that comes with success: The better an organization performs, the more ingrained its culture becomes, and the harder it can be for executives and employees to stay alert to big shifts in markets, technology, and culture. Can your culture maintain its zest for change and renewal, even when the company stumbles?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

I think the people of Ukraine should have some medium-term concerns about that — one of the reasons that you had this uprising against Yanukovych was because there was too much crony capitalism. But in the short-term, particularly given the subsequent Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is turning out to be a rather prescient action.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

By competing on products, we respond to the market. By competing on serving customers, we can understand, anticipate, stimulate, and influence market demands. We pride ourselves on finding ways (through R&D) to use less energy and water in the production process.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? Companies have spent enormous energy responding to the existential threat of new entrants. And then you think about how new entrants come into the market. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Having some cash on the side and wanting them to produce more in the long term is usually a great idea. Reflect on your goals and make the best decision depending on the time, energy, money, and skills you are willing to give to this investment venture. Such services require minimum efforts from your part, but they do not come cheap.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

” With women apparently expending more energy to achieve the same result, the longer runway gives them fewer years to have an impact in the top job. Women are driven by achieving business results and making a positive impact. ” Specific traits are essential to women’s success and in short supply.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. Click "READ MORE" to see the 44 content marketing agencies and 70 related tips from the experts!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But with a tax like the one described above, they would be forced to channel their creative energies to source locally where they can and import selectively as needed. They would leverage their scale, reach and efficiencies to explore new products, markets, geographies and business models.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In practical terms, what that means is we start asking questions about our purpose, our identity as a group, our way of getting work done, and how to improve what we’re doing. Finance is different from sales, R&D is different from quality, and so on. In short, what’s working and what’s not working? Derek Newberry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

If policymakers hope to be successful in their efforts to promote entrepreneurs and small businesses, they need to know what works – in short, they need a “Playbook” for small business job creation. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. Together we developed an agenda for change and put it into action. Things were looking up on all fronts except one.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. One way I have thought about these issues is in terms of one's calling. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. I don't think we can separate the two. link] Mike Henry Sr.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares. Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. So do some older, family-controlled firms, such as Ford Motor Co.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. 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? I am no longer limited by geography.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Maybe even cleverer is the market that Leo Burnett targeted to introduce it — a group with a strong need (and a perfect opportunity) to socialize: college freshmen. And because batteries are the single most expensive component in electric vehicles, that would be a big step toward his dream of a mass-market Tesla car.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. .”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

But while this notion is uncontroversial in finance, it is disruptive in health care (and education ) where we tend to exaggerate the importance of immediate costs and take a myopic view of benefits. These approaches unambiguously reduce short-run spending. Short-termism is not restricted to drugs; it pervades all of health care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For anyone with a pension linked to market performance, that is a good thing. For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste. billion years of evolution to find solutions for climate change.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In short, the tide of globalization washing across boundaries for so long has reached a peak and is receding. After decades of framing itself in terms of "partner" and "participant" in the global system, China in 2010 revealed its aspirational identity as challenger to the economic and political status quo and, specifically, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But as the energy and excitement from that first event fades, you’re left wondering: Now what? Have Rob from finance lead a seminar on tax-law changes that affect working parents, or on how to set up a college savings account. You’ve done everything needed to get this thing up and running. Use resources on hand.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

I call the first couple of years in one’s career the Aspiration Phase, in which it’s all about exercising one’s intellectual and interpersonal energies, and bringing enthusiasm, work ethic, and energy to an organization. Money, which includes base salary, bonus potential, and perhaps equity or long-term compensation.

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