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World Cup Predictions Contest

Chris Brady

Winner Declared » August 16, 2010 World Cup Predictions Contest Well, I was going to leave this one to the side, but so many of you have been writing and asking who won the World Cup contest that you've left me no choice. Posted by: Matt Foote | August 17, 2010 at 09:57 PM Auction it off to the best business building opening line?

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6 In 2014, when the pay of McDonald’s CEO was $6.4 million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business Review

As organic wine pioneer Jonathan Frey remarked in an interview, “These large companies would finance scientific studies to prove that organic was a joke and didn’t have any health benefits.” As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S., New category creation is not easy.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration. In addition to sheer luck, three categories of factors could explain differences in the performance of divested businesses.

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. Although former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis made eloquent appeals about the need to rethink macro, he said very little about changing how the economy is run. growth in late 2014 to a 2.5%

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. His “why” intact, but with a change in “how,” Benioff launched Chatter in 2010, a platform that supported collaboration within the enterprise – to better serve customers. Her “how” has morphed over the past two decades.