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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

By Susan Gunelius Guest post by Abby Marks Beale (learn more about Abby at the end of this post) As a solo entrepreneur, I have learned to spend my time on those things I major in (activities I am good at and like to do) while parceling out the things I minor in (tasks I am not good at or don’t enjoy) to those who have the expertise (and interest!).

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. This is a collection of budgets to fund both the projects in the innovation portfolio and the new initiatives for the core business. The investment portfolio.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

Hayek , economists have emphasized the central role that price signals play in markets. But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Better Data Can Help Insurers More Accurately Price Climate Risk. Dating back to at least F.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. million jobs. billion).

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