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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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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. What will this adaptation look like?

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The “Four P’s” of Marketing a Law Firm Online

Strategy Driven

In the course of my years partnering with web developer and SEO specialist Sagapixel, I’ve learned a lot about how to market my firm. For example, in the Philadelphia area market there is a law firm that does TV ads, places billboards all over the region, and spends a few million dollars on Adwords a year. Can You Create a Niche?

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

Harvard Business Review

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. (See There are examples of universities forging ahead. But still sitting on the sidelines? They’re quite good at it, on the whole.

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Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools

Harvard Business Review

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. In the hospitality sector, for example, they invest upfront into luxury real estate and equipment, but rarely into training programs.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

And what about getting candid feedback for your own growth and development? For example, you can preface a discussion by saying, “I’m talking to you as your son right now, not your employee.” Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. For example, the wealth effect from rising equity and real estate prices might make premium product segments more attractive in the coming years.