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Successful Fundraising: getting chosen over the competition

Strategy Driven

or your organization; It’s not the strength of your relationship or who you ‘know’; It’s not the market, your competition, your return potential or your marketing materials. And then the problem with marketing materials. Marketing materials must be developed to cover any possibilities and used appropriately.

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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. Did it surprise him to find that there was so little consensus on the best way to solve the problem of assigning a cost to capital?

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Thank You for Doing Your Job

Harvard Business Review

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. for the quarter, just barely clearing the consensus estimates of $0.40. Had something catastrophic happened? The problem?

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How One Company Made Its Analytics Investment Pay Off

Harvard Business Review

The ability to effectively communicate the power of analytics to unleash productivity has contributed to the rapid expansion of the analytics practice at GFNorte, and as a result the ABU has been given control of the database marketing efforts and sales offers in the distribution channels. The right people.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

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If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?

Harvard Business Review

The officers reached a consensus for some words, but their interpretations were all over the place for others. In this way, using an objective benchmark helps pinpoint your subjective probability. (To Prediction markets, including PredictIt , allow you to put real money behind your forecasts.

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Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use

Harvard Business Review

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. Yet in turbulent times this is dysfunctional.