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Social Networking for Business: Does it Really Work? :: Women on.

Women on Business

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004.

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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. According to ComScore, at the end of 2011 Facebook accounted for a shocking 28% of U.S. When Google IPO'd in 2004, the company's advertising business had tailwinds; internet penetration was only at around 68% in the U.S.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck'

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Should HSBC Stay or Should It Go?

Harvard Business Review

HBR Press, April 2011), very few firms are truly global in the sense that their business isn't concentrated in any one spot. He notes that as recently as 2004, less than one percent of all U.S. But as Pankaj Ghemawat points out in his forthcoming World 3.0 (HBR

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Why Greece and Cyprus May Be Better Off Without the Euro

Harvard Business Review

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. A managed exit from the common currency could alter that.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.