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- What Is Behavioral Targeting?
- Better, more sophisticated software analytic tools are allowing Web advertisers to precisely target ads to their most coveted consumers How It Works ...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- What Is Carbon Credit?
- C02 emissions trading can help lower the environmental cost of doing business – if you know how to navigate the booming $60 billion market. How It Works Emissions limits and trading rules vary country by country, so...
- Articles 2008-02-05
- What Is Web 2.0?
- Ask a dozen tech pundits to describe Web 2.0 and you're likely to get two dozen explanations as to what it is. Why It Matters Now In 1984, Sun Microsystems co-founder John Gage coined the phrase "the network is the computer" to describe his vision for the future...
- Articles 2007-05-15
- What Is Forced Ranking?
- Forced ranking is a controversial workforce management tool that uses intense yearly evaluations to identify a company's best and worst performing employees. Why It Matters Now Although most large organizations refuse to publicly discuss or even confirm whether they're using some form of forced ranking, as many as...
- Articles 2007-03-20
- What Is Crowdsourcing?
- Despite the jargony name, crowdsourcing is a very real and important business idea. The basic idea is to tap into the collective intelligence of the public at large to complete business-related tasks that a company would normally either perform itself or outsource to a third-party provider. ...
- Articles 2007-03-07
- What Is Private Equity?
- The term private equity encompasses a range of techniques used to finance commercial ventures in ways that do not involve the use of publicly tradable assets such as corporate stock or bonds. Typical forms of private equity include venture capital, growth and mezzanine capital, angel investing, and private equity funds....
- Articles 2007-03-05
- Who Is Nouriel Roubini?
- Five years after he predicted the U.S. mortgage market would collapse and push the country — and global economy — into a recession, economist Nouriel Roubini finally has the world's attention. His Predictions While other economists thought the real estate...
- Articles 2009-01-05
- Why Do CEOs (Still) Love Ayn Rand?
- Even a major free-market economic crisis hasn't broken the love affair between business execs and their favorite free-market philosopher. Rand’s Philosophy Rand’s Objectivist philosophy — which calls for facts over feelings, reason over mysticism, individual over state, and selfishness before altruism — wouldn’t...
- Articles 2009-02-24
- The Art of Cutting Pay, Not People
- Who's going to work just as hard for less compensation? Lots of people, actually. Pay cuts are no longer the taboo cost-saving tactic they once were. The Morale Question Yale economist Truman Bewley established the prevailing theory for why wages tend to...
- Articles 2009-07-22
- Who Is David Allen?
- With his popular seminar lectures and cult-like following, productivity expert David Allen has become an influential force in the Information Age workplace. Why He Matters Now: Since publishing his best-selling book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity in 2001, David Allen has...
- Articles 2007-03-12
- What Are CEO ‘Clawbacks'?
- Capping pay is one way to send a message to Wall Street fat cats, but requiring execs to pay back their bonuses takes the punishment one step further. How Clawbacks Work There are two basic kinds of clawbacks, says Daniel Ryterband, president...
- Articles 2008-10-03
- What Is a Results-Only Work Environment?
- A new management philosophy declares that giving employees complete control over their time is the best way to increase productivity in the workplace. How It Works As Ressler and Thompson put it in their book, “In a Results-Only Work Environment, people can do...
- Articles 2008-09-25
- What Is Appreciative Inquiry?
- When it comes to solving your company's biggest problems, focusing on what's already working may be the best way to fix what's wrong. How It Works AI involves a four-step process typically led by an outside consultant. The steps are usually done either in a...
- Articles 2008-08-18
- What Is a Poison Pill?
- "Poison pills" work to thwart hostile takeovers, but they can also turn shareholders against you. How It Works Most poison-pill agreements are triggered when an outside company or individual — think Carl Icahn, for example — acquires ...
- Articles 2008-08-11
- Baseball Inc.: The Genesis
- Forget the notion of baseball as America's Pastime — it's also one of America's savviest businesses. From its origins amid scandal to its modern-day experiments in online media and revenue sharing, here's how the business of Major League Baseball evolved. Organizational Structure After the 1919...
- Articles 2008-07-11
- Can College Teach You to Sell?
- In an era of recession and increasingly better-educated customers, some sales professionals say on-the-job sales training doesn't cut it anymore. Training the Next Generation of Sales Reps Advocates for college sales programs say that sales departments face a problem much larger than...
- Articles 2009-07-27
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- Putting Web 2.0 to Work
- Don't let the hype discourage you. Simple, easy to use, and — bonus! — much cheaper than traditional software, Web 2.0 tools can help your business thrive.What's all the hype about Web 2.0, and why should you care? We're glad you asked. To begin, you can read our BNET Briefing...
- Articles 2008-02-19
- Crowdsourcing: From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, talks to the San Francisco Chronicle today to discuss of his company's relocation from Florida to the Bay Area. He uses the interview as an occasion to complain about the term crowdsourcing. (If you're unfamiliar with the idea, our BNET Briefing defines it: "the basic...
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Managing Millennials
- Confident, forward-thinking, and 80 million strong, Generation Y will reshape the workplace. Here's how to get the best out of your youngest workers.Even if you were born to boss, you'd do well to bone up on today's crop of 20-something workers. Called millennials, this vast and important generation of...
- Articles 2008-05-19
- Blowing Up Business As Usual
- At some companies, employees skip meetings, set their own schedules, and take unlimited vacation time. Surprise: They also get more done.There's no shortage of approaches to organizational and performance management — from balanced scorecard and total quality management to management by walking around and rightsizing, just for starters. One of...
- Articles 2008-09-26
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