Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Strong yet Others are from books, films and politics. I believe we can stand on the shoulders of the past by exploring the legacy of the women who held out a hand when the terrain was rocky, gave us courage when it looked hopeless, encouraged us to keep on keeping on no matter what. The others can get a silent salute from the heart.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

When there’s enough intrigue to keep a film crew busy, enough &# ah-ha&# moments for disconnected CEOS, and enough shock and dismay to satisfy a nationwide TV audience then I submit to you that the issue we’re discussing today is a very real one…Many CEOs are simply out of touch with their businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy.

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

  Yaobang had been a popular figure among students andintellectuals, standing for the concepts of free markets and democracy in acommunist nation. .   What began as mourning for the loss ofa national leader, Hu Yaobang, grew into a gigantic demonstration known to theworld as the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989.

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Letter Blog Learning-by-Doing Travel 109

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It is something I call community financing. Community financing refers to a form of cash-flow that channels the financial resources of the savers of a community into the well-being of that community via economic activities, which members of the community believe should be undertaken and therefore willingly supports with their savings.

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Banking Finance Globalization Film 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala mentioned the “psychological impact” of the announcement on foreign investors. Before the announcement, the stock market capitalization to GDP ratio for Nigeria was 33%, compared to 270% for South Africa. First, there will be some changes in the competitive landscape. Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It is something I call community financing. Community financing refers to a form of cash-flow that channels the financial resources of the savers of a community into the well-being of that community via economic activities, which members of the community believe should be undertaken and therefore willingly supports with their savings.

Banking 8

Banking Finance Globalization Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

I had been an engineering manager at GE, so my areas of expertise included managing projects, inventory, and finances, all of which would be helpful. In our view, they needed to learn what it takes to plan their work, manage their time, interact with customers and vendors, handle the finances, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Last year, I finished directing a documentary film called The Work of 1000. Sometimes the market's just too small (luxury vacation planning for couples honeymooning in Belarus). Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant who has worked with clients including Google, Yale University, and the National Park Service.

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Wilde Film Career Marketing Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. Hive teams also have representatives from functions that might normally act as corporate antibodies, like legal, finance, HR, or compliance. How should you create a smoother handoff between teams?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it''s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. They illustrate the range of programs that companies should be implementing to stimulate innovation and shepherd ideas toward marketable products. Finance Innovation' It''s like that. Ready to Innovate?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it’s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. They illustrate the range of programs that companies should be implementing to stimulate innovation and shepherd ideas toward marketable products. Finance Innovation Insight Center_Innovation no-intromercial'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

This hand-off is a time of high risk and often fails because general management, human resources, marketing, communications, and sales teams haven't been informed along the way. Use skits, storyboards, and films to develop customer personas and scenarios. In most organizations different functional groups use their own languages.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From South Africa’s Silicon Cape to Kenya’s iHub -centered Silicon Savannah movement – from Ethiopia’s burgeoning textiles industry to Nigeria’s ubiquitous Nollywood film industry – there are visible signs of the growing profile of African entrepreneurs. They must focus on: Creating better safety nets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Kodak accepted the pain of shuttering plants and laying off tens of thousands of film-factory workers. It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. 4 in the inkjet-printer market, where it joined the likes of HP, Lexmark, and Canon.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). No one would claim that new product design does not or should not involve wise judgment.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

In November 2009 I took leave from my academic position to serve as the Secretary General for Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. Also, those providers that need to look at your data to serve ads or recommend films and books, should aggressively anonymize data and segregate them from personal details.

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Chris Brady

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Why is "oppressive" marketed as "progressive?" Here is a second group of questions to consider: Why do people who cling to murderous philosophies think they are the most informed, enlightened, intelligent and compassionate? Why does blind ignorance pass for being visionary? " Treat people with respect.

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Film Blog Letter Politics 116

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

This kind of auto–editing assistant can dramatically change the day-to-day tasks of workers in media, advertising, and film. The London-based startup Arria, for instance, helps its customers automatically generate reports in industries ranging from health care to finance to oil and gas. Market monitoring.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Every February, businesses in India wait with bated breath for the country’s finance minister to announce the Union Budget. “One of the great things about India is its ability to over-celebrate everything from weddings to rain to the latest Rajinikanth film. Will taxes go up or down? Will new concessions be announced?

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