Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Superbosses can be fierce or gentle, belligerent or self-depreciating, but whatever their style, they do a much better job inspiring and teaching because they get in their trenches with protégés, leading by example and giving them personalized attention they require to move up quickly. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The depreciation of sterling has driven up the price of the UK’s import bill by 13% (on average) since the vote, which, if fully passed on, translates into a ~6% drop in disposable income. A critical role of exports is to pay for imports, but even a steep depreciation does not guarantee an improved trade balance.

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Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. The building blocks for a digital company are research and development, brands, organizational strategy, peer and supplier networks, customer and social relationships, computerized data and software, and human capital.

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Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Codify best practices.

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Company IPO Price Loyalty 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Allows businesses to take a 100% depreciation write-off for investments in certain new business equipment in 2010 and 2011. Extended many energy and business credits and incentives, such as the Research & Development credit. In 2011, workers will pay 4.2% Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation. By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles. In February 2013, after a series of mismanaged leadership transitions including the firing of founder and CEO Shai Agassi, Better Place finally reversed course.

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Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8