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The Future of Business Is Social: Seven Principles That Lead to.

Strategy Driven

This emerging social era is about engaging everyone around you to redefine what you do and how you do it – including sales, marketing, R&D, customer support, and product development. In fact, at Telstra, social media participation is mandatory! Still skeptical? Then take a look at the hard numbers. Very, very smart.

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The Potential and Pitfalls of Doing Business in Cuba

Harvard Business Review

A further overrepresentation of the actual market size is determined by methodological inconsistencies. Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. This effectively means that these wages are overvalued by as much as 2400%.

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Smart Social Media Helps Jobs Find You

Harvard Business Review

It's been obvious since 2003, when LinkedIn was launched, that social networking could help job candidates and employers interact. Last year, Meyer became an enthusiastic participant on quora.com, a popular knowledge-sharing site. urged job seekers to display their coding skills on Github, a repository of open-source software projects.

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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

People feel envy and regret they haven’t participated. They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. It already has a higher market capitalization (although of course some think that’s a bubble ). They are, as paraphrased by Kestenbaum: Rapidly increasing prices.

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A Case Study of Crowdsourcing Gone Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Founded by entrepreneur Ben Kaufman, Quirky developed a platform that connected the company with outside inventors and project contributors. Since Henry Chesbrough coined the term open innovation in 2003, the most widely used form of open innovation has been innovation contests. Quirky’s open approach undermined quality control.