Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Include a press release approach both to business planning and communication. Therefore, because everyone can get discouraged, plan for downtimes to ease their sting. Practice frugality.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Sometimes the market's just too small (luxury vacation planning for couples honeymooning in Belarus). Sometimes the margins are too thin (personal finance author Ramit Sethi derides textbook exchange businesses and t-shirt companies as "stupid frat-boy business ideas"). (Michael Gerber writes about this extensively in The E-Myth.

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Wilde Film Career Marketing Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Created in conjunction with Carbon Tracker , the study lays out a plan for mobilizing much more capital toward building the clean economy. Economy Finance Sustainability' This is the key message from a leaked United Nations study that The New York Times reported on last week. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new.

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Discounted Cash Flow NGO Conference Banking 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. In the upper left quadrant are the multi-year rollouts, like large Enterprise Resource Planning or supply chain modernization endeavors.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

However, most companies require considerable planning and need both a competitive advantage and a solid business plan in order to succeed. While enthusiasm and faith are needed when planning out your business, you do want to temper those thoughts with realism. Consider the type of business and industry.

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Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Phones4U, a UK mobile phone retailer, announced a big increase in the weight of Net Promoter scores in its frontline pay plan. Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. Unless line managers and finance really believe in the link between customer feedback and business outcomes, your incentive system won't last long.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Shipment volumes through North American ports, which fell 20% in 2009 from a record peak in 2007, are now higher than they were in 2007, and port-expansion plans from Vancouver to Los Angeles/Long Beach are bogged down by political wrangling. But now the problem is back with a vengeance. Railway systems are near capacity. Reduce variability.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

He would jump suddenly from one idea to another and some of his plans seemed unrealistic, even grandiose. Apparently John had been reckless with his personal finances and had been involved in numerous affairs. But they also agreed he could go over the top. And whenever anyone tried to slow him down, John wouldn’t hear of it.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

Most decision makers try to find an experienced web development company with skills that align with the planned project. Brendan Wilde of Discountdomains.co.nz ‘A contractor with limited experience can be a star in a specific field but cannot always see the system in a broader sense’, Wilde added.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Though she liked the stability of her role as head of communications for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), which finances private-sector ventures in developing countries, she could feel her interest in her role beginning to wane. The key is to take small actions, and to do so deliberately.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

s plan to acquire all six of the licensees that made Express machines and pods. He suggested a meeting of the executive team to plan a response or even launch a preemptive attack, and the CEO agreed. Investors adored the Terranola story. The timing of all this was particularly bad. Terranola had been moving forward with A.J.’s

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Among the initial findings : more effective programs emphasize communication skills, networking, and organizational structure over developing finance and accounting skills. Here are two surprising facts. First, the average American estimates that over 25% of the U.S. federal budget goes to foreign aid. That is wildly off.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Many companies appointed process owners to design processes as part of a new system implementation such as enterprise resource planning (ERP). How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. And they succeeded wildly.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

company takes on the legal identity of foreign subsidiary, usually in order to reduce its taxes — has become about as controversial as corporate finance topics get. When I’m talking to corporate CEOs, CFOs, and board members, I don’t see the major multinationals planning to bring that cash back to the United States.

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