Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. It’s not surprising Katrina Markoff was named Woman of the Year by OPEN from American Express & Entrepreneur magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

50% of the population reads books. Of all high school graduates, 37% will never read another book after formal schooling. Of all college graduates, 16% will never read another book. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters.

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