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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

And she wrote her summary headline — a prime piece of résumé real estate — to immediately show that she had the experience these new positions require. This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

” On the other hand is research about people’s preferences, like this 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology that, according to its authors, “categorically contradict[s] the industry-accepted wisdom that open-plan layout enhances communication between colleagues and improves occupants.”

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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

will not be legalized until 2013). The kinds of start-ups that can most quickly and efficiently attract these funds (and garner the most money per campaign) are, the report goes on to specify, those that offer digital goods like software applications, games, films, and literature.

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. Financial crises hit sources of collateral like real estate particularly hard, and this has negatively impacted smaller firms credit scores.

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. According to a 2013 Mastercard study , India was in the “Inception” category of both absolute level of cashlessness and the trajectory of change.

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Why Greece and Cyprus May Be Better Off Without the Euro

Harvard Business Review

in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% The relatively cheap national currencies would provide a boost to exports, real estate, manufacturing, agriculture (for instance, olive oil production), and services such as tourism. They would become more efficient and productive; they would have to optimize the use of more expensive imports.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. The clean, efficient city has some livability advantages over Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, or Bangkok. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.