Women on Business
AUGUST 24, 2011
She was long dead when I first discovered Martha Matilda Harper and her amazing feat of launching modern franchising even though she had been a servant for nearly a quarter of a century. History buried its memory of the 500+ franchises she sprouted and staffed with other poor women. Guest Post by Jane Plitt.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 12, 2018
Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank. Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
SHE has created a franchise model — providing business skill training, technical expertise, and co-investment — to partner with women in Rwanda and other developing-country communities to distribute and ultimately manufacture and launch their own SHE LaunchPads franchises. Emotion Creates a Common Language.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 29, 2013
At the same time, grant support enables us to innovate, grow faster, and stay focused on the bottom of the pyramid. Only through many small operational innovations have we been able to get to 85 percent. The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty. Both are critical. Why do we care so deeply about the bottom line?
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 8, 2012
Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 11, 2010
Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. Our Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate advisors in Florida are believers. What more proof does one need? I Think Not.
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