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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

As managers move up the organizational hierarchy these financial skills gain more importance. A successful financial literacy program should provide managers with opportunities to utilize their financial skills on a regular basis. It’s not a one-time event, whether it be a three-day seminar or a three-week training program.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. and EBITDA margins are 47%. In the hyper-competitive world of technology and consumer Internet, it is hard to find a company that is pound for pound as profitable as TripAdvisor. Think about that.

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The $300 House: The Urban Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Building off US-inspired steel-based technology, we believe that it's possible to design, build, deliver, and erect affordable multi-tier tower housing, addressed squarely to lower class sections of the Indian demographic.

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