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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering.

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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business Review

In industries like retail, customer service, and hospitality, entry-level turnover alone costs billions of dollars each year, based on voluntary turnover rates and annual replacement costs. The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

Traditionally, companies have found ways to navigate these challenges internally, in research and development (R&D) divisions like the famed Xerox PARC , founded in 1970, or through programs that encourage employees to dedicate a small percentage of their time to side projects, as 3M began doing in 1948. A Different Approach.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

For any strategy to be successful and sustainable, an organization must develop an offering that attracts buyers; it must create a business model that enables the company to make money out of its offering; and it must motivate the people working for or with the company to execute the strategy. This is a trap many companies fall into.