Brainstorming Development Engineering Finance 
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2011
Listen to the words of a finance manager in a large consumer products company, whose efforts to improve his business team's profit margins were repeatedly undercut by people in the sales department: "I learned that pricing for one of our key accounts has already been confirmed to the customer, without any prior approval or review. [.]
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 10, 2017
One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
Its founder, Hans Faust, couldn’t afford to hire developers at the outset, so he’d enlisted volunteers to help design, build, test, and debug the new kind of online game he wanted to bring to the world. You forgot one important figure, Klaus,” Rutger Ekberg, the head of product development, said with a smile. Everyone laughed.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 9, 2013
Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. Now picture this group engaged in brainstorming, negotiations, or expansion planning.
Women on Business
JANUARY 13, 2011
I recommend you devote the bulk of your marketing budget to developing excellent content and lots of it, with some additional funds set aside for design, production, and maintenance. Your page ranking in search engines is determined by the relevancy of the content on your website. 4) Establish excellent incoming links.
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