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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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Sales of Saint Joseph Statuettes Reflect the Real Estate Market, in Reverse

Harvard Business Review

The real-estate market and sales of Saint Joseph statuettes tend to move in opposite directions, according to a Missouri-based religious-goods company queried by the Wall Street Journal. In 2013, statuette sales were down 10.6% from the previous year, a period in which the median U.S. existing-home sale price rose 11%.

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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. Seidman’s concerns were warranted.

Banking 50
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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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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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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. . He tried tech, finance, and real estate — all to no avail. “It’s very much, ‘Can you learn?

Career 12