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- A New Game Plan for C Players
- The Idea in Brief How to sustain a 23% annual shareholder return? Push your growth rate from 4% to 10% in one year? Triple your market capitalization in three years? Clothing retailer The Limited,...
- Articles 2008-03-10
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- Helen Driscoll: Creating Your Niche in the Marketplace
- In 1995 Helen Driscoll founded the company that became Invitesite, a fine paper company that uses 19th century printing presses. Driscoll discusses how she found innovation in an old-fashioned craft and the unique ways she serves her niche clientele.
- Videos 2008-03-08
- Michael Jones: From Start-Up to Success
- Michael Jones is founder and President of Userplane, which offers a communication platform for community messaging that enables a broad range of Web sites to run branded communication applications. Jones talks about the diversity of Userplane and its evolution.
- Videos 2008-03-24
- Steve Jones: Beating a Tough Market
- How do you do good business amidst a tough market? Steve Jones knows. His Better Shelter homes has prospered amidst a tough housing market because they target employees of a booming economy: the surf industry. Here, Jones talks about moving faster than the big players, and the importance of having...
- Videos 2007-12-06
- Young Production Company Has Heart And Soul In St. Louis, MO
- Behind every closed door lies a new opportunity. No one knows this better than Helen Hempstead, Steve Schoen, John Leimkuehler and Jorge Riopedre, owners of Cor Productions. After being laid off from their jobs at a production studio, these former co-workers couldn't let their expertise in television and radio production...
- Case studies
- SCORE Helps Turn A Struggling Jewelry Company In Santa Fe, NM Into A Glittering Business Success
- For few years, Marc Choyt and Helen Chantler ran their Santa Fe-based designer jewelry business by the seat of their pants. They had established themselves in a good niche market by exhibiting at trade shows, accounts at various galleries and department stores and a then-novel form of business called e-commerce....
- Case studies
- Edward Jones Investments: Edward Jones Traces Its Roots to 1871 and Currently Serves More Than Four Million Clients
- Edward Jones, the only major financial services firm advising individual investors exclusively, traces its roots to 1871 and currently serves more than four million clients. The challenge put forth by the client was to manage a high volume account (average of 100 new leases signed per month) for more than...
- Case studies
- Microsoft Takes Steps To World-Class Procurement
- This article discusses the case of Microsoft. When Don Jones took the position of general manager, worldwide procurement, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash., late in 2000, the group was focused mainly on improving efficiency of the company's transaction processes. This article focuses on the work done by Jones and his team...
- Case studies 2003-04-03
- The Nation, Mother Jones, NPR, and CIR: The Non-Profit Business Model
- The Nation, Mother Jones, NPR, and CIR: The Non-Profit Business ModelRE: The Nation, Mother Jones, NPR, and CIR: The Non-Profit Business ModelIt is great for us outside the US to be able to listen to NPR and read the Nation on their websites. Go global!Informative ArticleThis is great and informative...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Hedge Fund Information
- This article explains the origin of hedge funds. The year was 1949, WWII just ended, and the world was in a unified celebration. Alfred Winslow Jones, a sociologist, was working on assignment for Fortune magazine investigating fundamental and technical research on forecasting the stock market. The article reported on a...
- White papers
- Construction Beyond Lean: A New Understanding Of Construction Management
- Lean Construction has existed in its own right for more than few years. At the same time the five lean principles as outlined by Womack and Jones have gained a firm foothold in the manufacturing industries, and the term lean has thus become a household term in manufacturing. Unfortunately and...
- White papers 2004-10-18
- SCORE Offers Sage Advice To Staffing Service In Columbia, MO
- There's nothing like experience, and lots of it. Just ask Jo Manhart of Columbia, MO. Jo, the former executive director of the Missouri Poultry Federation, was preparing to start Available Jones, a staffing agency that would specialize in placing older and retired workers in short-term jobs. But before Jo could...
- Case studies
- Fertility And Social Security
- The data show that an increase in government provided old-age pensions is strongly correlated with a reduction in fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility, the one by Barro and Becker (1989), and the one inspired by Caldwell...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- How to Condescend Your Boss, Dow Jones-Style
- Rupert Murdoch is all fired up about the potential for WSJ online — perhaps a little too fired up. Murdoch said that the site would drop its subscription model, and that he anticipates a massive increase in readership — from one million to 10-15 million — when the site becomes...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Ethical Decision Making About Sexual Harassment Complaints That Stem From Dissolved Workplace Romances: A Policy-Capturing Approach
- An experiment was conducted to examine the degree to which Jones' (1991) ethical decision-making model is an appropriate theoretical perspective from which to interpret raters' varying responses to a sexual harassment claim that stems from a dissolved workplace romance. The policy capturing methodology was used with 40 study participants to...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Free PR Resources for You
- It's always nice to be able to stretch the budget and use OPM (Other People's Money) to learn stuff. Here are a couple of PR freebies for you: PRWeek webinar: The Changing World of Business News. Tuesday, January 22 @ noon Eastern. Speakers will include: ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Interpretation as Conflict Resolution
- Optimality-theory provides a framework to deal with conflicts in interpretation in a systematic way by means of constraint-ranking. In 2002, NWO, the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, funded a project proposal submitted by Petra Hendriks (Groningen University), Helen de Hoop (University of Nijmegen) and the first author of this paper...
- White papers 2004-02-26
- Why Is It So Tough To Sell Today, And What To Do About It
- How well is your sales cycle aligned with your prospects' buying process? Is your sales team getting the results it is capable of achieving? Staying on top of constant business changes has never been so crucial in customer retention and establishing a competitive selling edge. Factiva from...
- White papers
- Daily Dispatch: Ford, Dow Jones, Dell, Incomes Decline
- For the seventh straight month, Ford Motor Company's sales dropped in May, largely because of a 24 percent decline in sales to rental car companies and a 12 percent slide in sales of F-series pickup trucks. The F-series, the nation's best-selling vehicle, has also shown a seven-month decline...
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- POWERLOGIC System Is "Vital" for Hospital Operation
- Helen Hayes Hospital's existing generator control system consisted of a complicated manual control system that depended on functioning pilot lights for operation. A POWERLOGIC power monitoring and control system that was installed and tested helps the hospital monitor and test their 1600KW generator. During an outage, the POWERLOGIC system monitors...
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