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What is Your New Business Model for 2010?

Women's Leadership Exchange

So take a hard look at your market. a company known for its live conferences since 2002, is presenting the first Virtual Summit for Women Business Owners and Professionals, www.womensleadershipexchange.com (and men can attend, too) on Wednesday, May 26. So the theme of the virtual conference ?A s business model.

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Dancing Priest: How a Book Was Born

Ron Edmondson

It was 2002. My wife convinced me to try to market the manuscript. I talked with editors and agents at a writer’s conference. I almost gave up any hope of publication when an agent told me it was not marketable unless it had a vampire or werewolf in the story. He’s married with two grown sons and two grandsons.

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Would You Invest in This Kid?

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. No nation has a monopoly on great ideas.

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Research: We Take More Risks When We Compete Against Rivals

Harvard Business Review

” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. They drive corporate strategy, marketing, and research and development, as well as individual investment decisions.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.” years in 2002 to 7.2

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10 Remarkable People on Having a Career That Matters

Harvard Business Review

“Reporters at press conferences would always ask me about that, and I would tell them, ‘Listen, I don’t need to be captain. Fired from that firm in 2002, he now runs a nonprofit and two biotech companies. He says he “never wanted to be a leader.” ” But it came naturally. ’” Biologist J.

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