Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

I am first to applaud marketers who essentially created a grassroots adoption effort to create a quasi-standard for taxonomy, nomenclature, definitions, and a weighted value across the marketing waterfall. A marketing waterfall “lead” is a faceless customer.

Marketing 50

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. Learn more about Shann at the end of this post.

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Press Release PR Exit Strategy Discount 100

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

It’s created through a process of due diligence and a deliberate effort to intentionally and consistently integrate the seven core values into the workplace. Loyalty is subjective, but its basic definition is faithfulness to the commitments you’ve made and remaining true to the obligations at hand.

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Development Team Loyalty Due Diligence 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

AI software also offers simple prediction, which has implications for due diligence: AI contracting software can quickly sort through a large volume of contracts and flag individual contracts based on firm-specified criteria. And even more routine transactions required employees to pay close attention to details.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Software Document Review 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In the race to get the check in hand, most entrepreneurs don’t do in-depth due diligence — or any due diligence — on the venture capital (VC) firms they pitch. Most VCs support entrepreneur due diligence and will actively encourage you to talk to their portfolio company teams.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Rate of Return Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The conduct of due diligence in the ventures raising money will render crowdfunding prohibitively expensive and thus impractical. Due diligence is too expensive. If investment complexity makes crowdfunding untenable, then the need for due diligence makes it too expensive. Crowds are frequently stupid.

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Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Do we reveal everything to a prospective buyer during due diligence? The power of rationalization and the difficulties of definition reveal integrity as a subject that is neither easy nor simple. The reality is that all of us (and not just students) face integrity-based choices on a regular basis.

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Due Diligence Mission Statement Definition Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

For example, the financial and legal staffs are bound at the hip on the various phases of mergers and acquisitions, from the memorandum of understanding, to representations and warranties, to due diligence, to definitive agreement, to closing and then to deal integration. Compliance.

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The company quickly adjusted its operational definition of “loyalty” to explicitly embrace and reward its “digital evangelicals” — customers who had enough of a virtual presence to be influencers. These customers were given perks, privileges and the power to offer certain promotions.

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Due Diligence KPI Loyalty Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

That quashed the idea that they could plan for a definitive fu­ture. Strategy development and internal reviews often focus on precedents, trends, and due diligence. I asked each team to list key changes they might make over the next few years, and then I calculated the number of possible scenarios. million scenarios.

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Due Diligence Groupthink Strategy Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

There's definitely a plan for tomorrow in Paris. This means that we are now embracing the very things we used to keep out of the system, the noise that obscured signal, the individual eccentricity that got in the way of "due diligence" and "due process." We want our Paris, a city that speaks to our particular interests.

Hotels 12

Hotels Due Diligence Tourism Travel 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

A champion, by definition, is deeply invested in getting the deal signed, and the key to working effectively with him is to focus on collaborating to convince the decision maker to say “yes.”. Realistically, Pete’s best hope for getting promoted was to raise his visibility—and OnLive was the perfect vehicle to do so.

Stephenson 8

Stephenson Due Diligence Finance Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

What approval or validating process is required for a definitive decision? This can be as formal as extended due diligence (in the case of a company seeking funding) or as informal but equally critical as a conversation around the dinner table that evening with a spouse or family (in the case of a job opportunity).

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Audience Due Diligence How To Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. As BCG’s founder, Bruce Henderson, once stated , “The first definition of a problem is inescapably intuitive.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

But realistically, the company can’t give you a definitive answer.” “It definitely made us a stronger family,” she says. “I did my due diligence,” he says. . “There is a tension there,” he says. ” And besides, “career paths tend to be haphazard for most of us.”

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How To Long-term Short-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

My definition of “networking” is any activity that increases the value of your network or the value you contribute to it. Due diligence is required here to make sure the people you reconnect with are currently in a situation that is relevant to yours.

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Due Diligence CRM Learning-by-Doing Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

What sort of due diligence must a prospective employer do to determine the truth of allegations of sexual harassment? Does an accused job applicant have any sort of “ due process ” rights in this situation? If not, how can serial harassers be stopped? There are no easy answers to these questions.

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Reference Due Diligence Incentives Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

However, much of the criminal activity is now being mitigated by self-organized, crowdsourced due diligence in the community , as well as by external parties such as Smith and Crown , a research group focused on cryptofinance, and ICO Rating , a ratings agency that issues independent analytical research on blockchain-based companies.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11