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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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What It Was Like to Be a Manager in Ukraine

Harvard Business Review

Our supply and distribution lines were impeded; we lost market territory to war and annexation; we had to manage the impact of military mobilization of our workers, and we needed to relocate or redeploy almost a hundred employees and their families. We called this bonding “tent time.”

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Why “Many-Model Thinkers” Make Better Decisions

Harvard Business Review

For example, a yield curve, which compares bonds with the same risk profile but different maturity dates, can be considered a model. For example, Point Nine Capital uses a linear model to sort potential startup opportunities based on variables representing the quality of the team and the technology. Risk takes many forms.