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Unusual Ways to Save Money In Your Business

Strategy Driven

No matter if you are looking for a better quality machine for your manufacturing plant, or a way to measure thin film stress and strain , you will have to consider all the options before you tie yourself into a long term contract. There are several ways you can cut your regular expenses and operational costs.

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Nigeria’s GDP Just Doubled on Paper: What It Means in Practice

Harvard Business Review

The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn. However, from the perspective of managers and CEOs operating in Nigeria, there are some important implications. First, there will be some changes in the competitive landscape. Global business'

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations. This model is most common in software development teams, where UX designers may be involved in both early user research and long-term management of the product.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Machine Shop was born in drummer Rob Bourdon’s living room in 1999 when the band was packing CDs and stickers into boxes to send to their very first fans, long before any of their music had hit the radio waves. Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.