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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Other ideas: donate your expertise as an award, speak at the local library or school, and interview local officials to report for newsletters. Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling. Any side-door approach is going to take time and research.

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High Frequency Trading: Threat or Menace?

Harvard Business Review

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

Disinvestment in schools has also been central to teacher strikes that have occurred since 2011, in Jersey City, Philadelphia, Chicago (twice), Seattle, Portland and Wisconsin. In every state where teachers have recently gone on strike, demands for increase school funding have been made.