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Leadership Strategies: Are You a Davos Woman?

Women on Business

One quick note, at our past WELL programs we have used clips from the film “Mona Lisa’s Smile” to get deeper discussions going. I would love to hear your responses to “What would you bring up if you were asked to be an attendee in Davos at the World Economic Forum”? You may want to watch this and then give your imagination wings.

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Revisiting Our Masculine Side of Leadership :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Now, it is, in essence, a mystery story and a precursor of the Indiana Jones films. He ” by Robert Johnson is about the myth of Perceval and the Holy Grail. It is, also a pointer to the masculine in each of us.

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Business Leadership Expertise: Give a Gift of Honoring :: Women on.

Women on Business

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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Using Analytics to Predict Hollywood Blockbusters

Harvard Business Review

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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Using Analytics to Predict Hollywood Blockbusters

Harvard Business Review

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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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

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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The End of Banks as We Know Them?

Harvard Business Review

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.