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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” Then Shiller jumped in with a fourth: “The news media are involved. There were no bubbles before there were news media.”.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

As a long-time business journalist in the mainstream media, my professional and personal reputation was on the line. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Sales doubled in 2013. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow.

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Study: Employees Want Employers to Talk Politics

Harvard Business Review

Our Prosperity Project (P2) strategy and platform is the largest and most pervasive business grassroots and advocacy platform in the United States. That compares to only 16% who found the media most credible and 12% who view political parties most credible. And I don't see a problem in that.