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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

This time of a year is an important reminder that where your company is headquartered also can have a significant impact on your bottom line. Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors.

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, A company that installs gutter guards recently lost my business. They lost the sale, but I now have new gutter guards that were installed by another company. Dear Jeffrey, My company delivers mobile dictation and transcription service to field workers in IT and health care, saving these people time in reporting.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Government has Created a Monster

Strategy Driven

RepublicBank merged with InterFirst Corporation in June 1986, and formed First RepublicBank Corporation, the largest bank holding company in the Southwest at the time. With both banks highly concentrated in the weak Texas real estate market, the deal ended up helping neither bank. billion in management fees to NCNB.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. But many of the trends are picking up speed now and should become even more pronounced in 2013. companies had all-male boards. of the U.S.

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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

When Toby Johnson was 24 years old, the Army pilot was in charge of eight $30 million Apache helicopters, plus the 30 people who managed them — more responsibility than any of her friends in the private sector. Today, she’s a VP and General Manager for a prominent Fortune 500 corporation. . Do you have a strong work ethic?’”

Career 12
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Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools

Harvard Business Review

Companies and entrepreneurs can bring a sustainable solution, while unlocking massive economic opportunity, but a change is required from today’s status quo. In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue.

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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

From my experience investing in emerging start-ups (I'm invested in 60 right now) and launching my share of both failures (4) and highly successful (3) companies, I can attest that Mr. Isenberg is perfectly correct in his assertion that it's dangerous to expect crowdfunding of equities to work the same way crowdfunded donations do.