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Warren Buffett's 2010 Shareholder Letter: What to Expect

Harvard Business Review

26, many thousands of people around the world will download Warren Buffett's 2010 shareholder letter. I will be among the crowd checking to see what is revealed in his newest letter. A careful study of Buffett's letters over the past 45 years led me to a startling conclusion: his messages almost never change.

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Trust the Process

Chris Brady

Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. They feel like they know u well enuf that u'd b another friend on the Team who comes to visit us, to "fight for freedoms"!

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CEOs Don’t Care Enough About Capital Allocation

Harvard Business Review

There are just two ways to increase ROIC: improve operating profit (by increasing revenues or cutting costs) or invest capital more wisely. As the chart below shows, only half of the CEOs of companies in the Dow Jones Index have previous experience in corporate finance or strategy.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

I do have a 15-year-old who could not in a million years be bothered to send Apple’s Tim Cook a letter urging him to “meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.” If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Wait a while. Sell stock in the company.

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An Executive Pay Witch Hunt

Harvard Business Review

Within three weeks the task force sent letters to hundreds of nonprofit organizations demanding to know what they pay their executives and board members. The letters also warned that "the regulatory agencies involved hold powerful leverage through their ability to cut off financing to groups that fail to comply.".

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. But yes, they do! Hire a specialist. Hire a professional.

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