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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

The business models of universities are being challenged, and it looks like the universities are out to lunch. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote. a better place to be.

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Law Firms’ Grueling Hours Are Turning Defectors into Competitors

Harvard Business Review

Axiom is an order of magnitude larger than most new models of legal practice, but it is not the only one nipping at Big Law’s heels. Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. They’ll steal your people – and your business.