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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

By Susan Gunelius Guest post by Abby Marks Beale (learn more about Abby at the end of this post) As a solo entrepreneur, I have learned to spend my time on those things I major in (activities I am good at and like to do) while parceling out the things I minor in (tasks I am not good at or don’t enjoy) to those who have the expertise (and interest!).

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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. The problem arises because different systems employ different definitions of key terms. An important issue arose and management asked the two departments to determine whether the company had been losing market share.

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Guidance is Good, Overpriced Shares a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Baruch Lev: Investors' resentment, after the worst stock market decade in recent history, numerous accounting scandals and managerial pay abuses, is at all-time high and is very damaging. BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company. Your book argues that they're wrong. Why's that?

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Many innovation groups want to have it both ways, acting as a partner to the business units to help them tackle near-term opportunities, while also developing further-out, “disruptive” ideas that could shake up their industry. That leaves many ideas swimming around inside the corporate fish tank for far too long.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on? Where will this period of discovery take the company?

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

And that is part and parcel of professional life. ” Think long term. He wanted to sell his company’s organizational assessment and leadership development services to “George,” a CEO who had taken the reins of a technology firm poised for a great deal of change. ” But that notion is outdated.

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