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Five Ways to Build Your Wealth: A Guide

Strategy Driven

Then, list all your expenses, including fixed expenses such as rent, utilities, and insurance, and variable expenses such as food, entertainment, and clothing. A diversified portfolio includes various investments, such as stocks, bonds, real estate, and cash. Invest in bonds of various types, credit ratings , and maturities.

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How do you start your own business

Strategy Driven

Furthermore, the state can legally bind you to acquire surety bond insurance, under the federal law that you might not even know about. Therefore, learn a valuable lesson from this and make sure you sort out any tax, license or insurance matters if you want your business to run smoothly. Planning Ahead.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

This newfound optimism could be the usual bright-eyed resolve that comes with a new year, but it more likely resulted from something else: the passing of The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (“the tax bill”) in December. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011.

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3 Business Models That Could Bring Million-Dollar Cures to Everyone

Harvard Business Review

” As this first wave of genetic treatments hits the market, industry leaders face a stark choice. As the use of these expensive drugs grows, there seems to be no way traditional insurance models will be able to pay for them without breaking the bank or requiring patients to assume a big chunk of the cost. Insight Center.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

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What to Know Before You Sign a Payment-by-Results Contract

Harvard Business Review

Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. And the Health Care Transformation Task Force , a newly formed coalition of private insurers and provider organizations in the U.S., ” U se of digital technology.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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