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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes. Remain flexible for growth.

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The Changing Economics of App Development

Harvard Business Review

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. million apps as of July 2015. Overall, over 20,000 app developers and companies will have made over $100,000 in revenues — or $8,333 per month — from their apps in 2015.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing. Last year, GE’s first “brilliant factory” opened in India.

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Shutting Down Your Business Gracefully

Harvard Business Review

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth. He wanted out.

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What CEOs Get Wrong About Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. In fact, she literally wrote the book on it.