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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

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.

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How an American Express Executive Drives Growth

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, he saw that the advent of digital technologies was going to fundamentally alter the way people conduct commerce, pay for things, and manage and move their money. It was a technology-driven form factor. Instead of thinking about technology for technology’s sake, we studied the real consumer pain points in the market.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part.

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What Wise Leaders Always Follow

Harvard Business Review

Instead, Dr. V changed the face of eye care on the planet, and he did it by owning the entire problem — providing community outreach, eye care, training, eye banks, research and the production of inexpensive but high-quality eye care supplies. If McDonald's can do it for hamburgers, why can't we do it for eye care?"

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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

Many technologies, such as computers, copiers, fax machines, and other office equipment are rapidly converging. And, in a very different industry, Royal Bank Financial Group’s Dominion Securities is developing financial service super stores that combine investment, savings, and insurance solutions for the group’s clients.

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Doing Business in India Requires a Mobile-First Strategy

Harvard Business Review

If you want to see how mobile technology can disrupt the very basics of business models and habits established over hundreds if not thousands of years, look at what’s happening in India. By July 2016, virtually every Indian had a mobile telephone and access to text messaging, primarily using 2G technology.

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Putting Customers at the Heart of Your Brand to Create Passionate Fans: What Microsoft Learned About Customer Engagement in the Sports Industry - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM Microsoft

Harvard Business Review

Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. “Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible.

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