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Everyday Business Travelers Are Easy Targets for Espionage

Harvard Business Review

James Bond might be the world’s best-known spy, but nowadays even an obscure international business traveler could face similar surveillance threats from a hostile foreign intelligence service or even a business competitor. Business Travel. You and Your Team. Take the stress out of your next trip.

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21 Home-Based Business Ideas & Tips for Starting a Business from Home

Miles Anthony Smith

Travel Costs​ Depending on the nature of your business you could be traveling frequently. If so, you can write off several things: Hotel costs: If you pay for any kind of lodging during work-related travel, keep the receipts and make sure you write this off. Rental cars: Did you rent a car for business travel?

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. savings and loan industry crisis in the 1980s and 1990s showed us, enough marginal franchises added to a healthy portfolio can swamp the enterprise. As the U.S.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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How an American Express Executive Drives Growth

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, he saw that the advent of digital technologies was going to fundamentally alter the way people conduct commerce, pay for things, and manage and move their money. It was a technology-driven form factor. Instead of thinking about technology for technology’s sake, we studied the real consumer pain points in the market.

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Learning from the Innovation Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Or how Herb Kelleher upended air travel with Southwest’s low-cost, no-frills, fun-in-the-air approach. Or how Larry Page and Sergey Brin stretched beyond search, expanding into productivity software, operating systems, hardware, self-driving cars, advanced robotics, and even life-extension technologies.

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Case Study: An Angel Investor with an Agenda

Harvard Business Review

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.