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End-of-the-Year Tax Tips for Last Minute Savings

Women on Business

Many of the business owners we work with say they’re ready to get 2011 behind them. Plenty of good news remains in 2011 for business owners yet to capitalize on three last minute tax planning tips that keep more cash on hand for 2012. January 2012 beckons as business objectives glisten with potential revitalization and realignment.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. An assessment should be done of the high potential employees to determine their current strengths and development needs. We’ll look at how they determined what competencies were needed for future leaders and what comprised the program that was developed.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. And more are joining every day.

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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

Furthermore, I understand all too keenly the complexities of determining a fair valuation for companies that are too early in their development to fit existing measurement standards and can't meet the criteria for standard bank or SBA funding. billion in 2011, and that funding volume is on track to nearly double to $2.8

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point. These developments, while promising, are not without risks.

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Why We Pay All Our Employees a Commission

Harvard Business Review

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. A developer or member of a support team may go to the sales department, for example, to say, "I have an extra half hour.