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U.N. Global Compact Delists 630 Companies
What do Tyco Services, Huatai Group, Ford Malaysia, L'Oreal Argentina, Barclay's Bank of Ghana and The Ethical Investment Company of Australia all have in common? Each is among the 630 companies the United Nations Global Compact has booted off of its worldwide list of participants for failure to submit a...
Tags: Finance, Human Resources, Web Site Development, E-mail, Business Structures, Government, Labor Relations, Principle, Internet, Michael Mattis, Online Communications
Blog posts 2008-07-11
How to Use a Strategic Alliance to Get Ahead
Whether you're looking to share risk, resources, or expertise, a strategic partner might be exactly what your company needs to grow and develop in ways that it couldn't on its own. The Three Stages of Strategic Alliances Source: Harvard Knowledgebase ...
Tags: BNET Editorial, Strategic Alliances, Business Structures, Management, Finance, Strategy, Partnership, Alliance, Strategic Alliance, Collaboration, Timberland Co., Starbucks Corp., Metrics
Articles 2008-06-20
China: An Outsourcer's Survival Guide
Manufacturing in China can be a golden opportunity — or a royal pain. We'll show you the right way to build overseas partnerships that work.You've heard the horror stories: chemical-laced toothpaste, tainted seafood, lead-coated toys. Partnering with Chinese manufacturers and suppliers may save millions, but in light of these problems,...
Tags: BNET Feature Package, Global Strategy, Manufacturing, Jake Swearingen, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing, Outsource, China, Finance, Business Structures
Articles 2008-06-06
Where Did Japan Go Wrong?
Twenty years ago, with George Bush Sr. in command of the country, the US was gripped with almost a national hysteria about Japan. The hottest read in business and government circles was Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It,...
Tags: Management, Financing Startups, Finance, Channel Management, Strategy, Business Structures, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Hagiu, Japan, Marketing, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-05-20
Cocreating Business's New Social Compact
The Idea in Brief Executives and social activists working together? It's true: after decades of mutual distrust, corporations and nongovernmental organizations NGOs are collaborating to combat poverty around the world. Their weapon? Innovative local businesses such as...
Tags: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), BP Plc, Business Ethics, Business Operations, Business Structures, C.K. Prahalad, Corporate Social Responsibility, Finance, Gender And Diversity, Harvard Business Review, Human Resources, In Brief, Jeb Brugmann, Leadership, Management, Managerial Accounting, NGO, Quality, Real Estate, Sales, Sales Strategy
Articles 2008-04-14
Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?
The Idea in Brief How many of us struggle harder every day to uphold obligations to our bosses, families, and communities--even as the quality of our lives erodes? And how many of us feel too...
Tags: Commitment, Recruitment & Selection, Research & Development, Business Structures, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Donald N. Sull, Dominic Houlder, Professional Development, Productivity, Commitments
Articles 2008-04-14
Microhoo: Mr. Right, or Mr. Right Now?
Finding "The One" isn't easy. Is Yahoo just playing hard to get? Neither company can stand alone against the Google machine, so a loving partnership may be their only choice.
Tags: berkshire hathaway, blaine, britney, buffet, business, Business Structures, cash, cbs, cbs news, cbs.com, closing bell, cnbc, connery, david, day trade, douglass, finance, google, howard lindzon, invest, investing, jim cramer, julie alexandria, market, michael, microsoft, mike, money, nasdaq, nyse, proposal, punchout, sean, spaceballs, stock exchange, stock market, stocks, trading, trends, tyson, wallstreet, wallstrip, warren, web video, wedding, yahoo
Videos 2008-04-09
OfficeMax Data Mining Lets Customers Trigger Their Own Deals
If you buy a digital camera from OfficeMax but not a memory card, you'll get e-mail the following week with memory product recommendations and a 15-percent-off coupon. The Naperville, Ill., office products store excels at event-triggered communications, says managing partner Kelly Hlavinka of Colloquy, Alliance Data's loyalty consulting arm in...
Tags: Data Mining, OfficeMax Inc., Camera, Hlavinka, Digital Cameras, Retail, Business Structures, Digital Photography, Sales Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance, Sales, Lisa Everitt
Blog posts 2008-03-25
Is Yahoo Getting its Buzz Back?
When Yahoo beta-launched its new Buzz feature recently, I was among its many skeptics. There were already so many similar services -- Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us Newsvine, Newser, Helium, and another beta entry, Mixx-- that the market seemed more than saturated. But, after only a...
Tags: Dallas Morning News, Blogging, Business Structures, Internet, Productivity, Finance, David Weir, Yahoo! Inc.
Blog posts 2008-03-18
Nicole Simons: Turning Tradition into Profit
Since its founding in 2001, Los Angeles based Fortunuts has become a staple in the gourmet snack food world. Partner Nicole Simons discusses the founding of Fortunuts and how she brought her company to resounding success with such clients as Omni Hotels and Yahoo.
Tags: Food, Food & Beverage, Business Structures, Manufacturing, Finance, Nicole Simons, Fortunuts, Gourmet, Snack
Videos 2008-03-08
Jak Severson: Interactive Talent Scout
Co-created by Jak Severson, Big Shot Live is a reality show-style talent competition that airs on the Web. It gives regular people an opportunity to promote showbiz talents through one-minute videos, and gives the most popular contestants a chance to try and make it in Hollywood. Severson discusses...
Tags: Business Structures, internet, online video, interactive media, Big Shot Live, Jak Severson, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Finance, hollywood, talent search
Videos 2008-03-08
Can Yahoo Save America's Newspapers?
In a little under a year and a half, Yahoo's alliance with newspapers has expanded to include roughly a third of all daily newspapers in the U.S.  One key engine of this growth is Yahoo's HotJobs platform, which appears as co-branded sites and sections with its newspaper...
Tags: David Weir, Finance, Business Structures, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc.
Blog posts 2008-02-22
Update: Gambling On Business With Friends
Our poll on how to handle a partner who takes a big gamble on your business has generated some mixed responses, with no clear winner. When you bring personal relationships into starting a business, it appears the old "stick to the deal, no matter how painful it is to the...
Tags: Finance, William Baker, Business Structures, Friend, Business
Blog posts 2008-02-21
Poll: Gambling On Business With Friends
Your Dilemma: Two years ago, you went into business with an old friend, opening an Internet sales company. The first year went well initially, but sales became flat after about a year. Your partner argued adamantly that what you needed was a consultant to come in and help gauge your...
Tags: William Baker, Sales, Finance, Internet, Sales Force Management, Business Structures, Sales Strategy, Consultant
Blog posts 2008-02-19
Do Your Customers Value You?
B2B sales is all about providing value. But do your customer really value you and your firm? And if so, how much? The brainiacs at CSO Insights have done a lot of high quality research into why customers value certain vendors while treating others as...
Tags: Geoffrey James, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Business Operations, It Operations, Internet, Strategy, Management, Finance, E-business/E-Commerce, Outsourcing, B2B, Business Structures, B2B Sale, Strategic Planning, Customer, Product
Blog posts 2008-02-18
What the Technology Future Holds: The View From McKinsey
Three partners from McKinsey based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley have written a very provocative article on future technology trends. It's well worth a look. They examine eight trends, but the one that rings home with me is called "distributing cocreation." Basically, they are predicting that...
Tags: Management, Software, Workforce Management, Strategy, Groupware, Business Structures, Linux, McKinsey & Co., Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Finance, Operating Systems, William J. Holstein
Blog posts 2008-02-13
Want to Be Heard? Create Media-Friendly Messages
It always amazes me when business executives want to get the greatest possible publicity for the dullest pieces of information. I think I understand the paradox: executives are naturally risk-averse, so they want to say as little as possible, while the rest of us are interested in hearing about...
Tags: Jon Greer, Software/Web Development, Software Development, Finance, Marketing, Internet, Development Tools, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Podcasts
Blog posts 2008-02-11
Seven Steps to a Solid Business Partnership
Today, there were two big partnerships that hit the news. AT&T was teaming up with Starbucks to offer free wireless Internet. Experiencing Deja Vu? Probably because BNET1 reported on a similar revelation from AT&T a few weeks ago. The second piece that hit the news was Netflix's choice...
Tags: Jonathan Haeber, Finance, Business Structures, Fluidity, Business Partnership, Partnership, NetFlix Inc.
Blog posts 2008-02-11
Why Yahoo Should Just Say No to Microsoft
For starters, the Microsoft-Yahoo marriage can't work because the resulting mash-up name would be all wrong: MicroHoo. I'm sorry, but that just won't pass regulatory muster. Scott D. Anthony has a far more substantiative argument against the deal, however. Combining two also-rans won't create a viable competitor...
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Innovation, Sean Silverthorne, Finance, Management, Business Structures, Strategy, Leadership, Anthony, Microsoft Corp.
Blog posts 2008-02-05
Your Next Job: Intellectual Mercenary
As the labor shortage continues to grow in the coming decades, the very nature of work may change with it. The model of the future? Think Hollywood. That's the insight offered by Harvard Business blogger Tammy J. Erickson in her piece, Cycling: The Hollywood Approach to Talent...
Tags: Finance, Sean Silverthorne, Business Structures, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Retirement, Job
Blog posts 2008-01-29
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