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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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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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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S.

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

Harvard Business Review

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth.

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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. He notes that as recently as 2004, less than one percent of all U.S. The UK hardly seemed like an alternative high-growth market.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects.