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nicole solis

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Unleash Your Inner Intrapreneur
Starting a new venture within an established company can satisfy the entrepreneurial itch — without the risks of going solo. Learn how "intrapreneurship" can give your career, and your company, a boost. Ever dream of leaving your middle-management job and striking out on your own? For a lot of people,...
Tags: BNET Feature Package, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Marketing, Career, Intrapreneurs, Nicole Solis, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Management, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Start-up, Entrepreneurship
Articles 2008-04-10
Richard Florida: Who's Your City
Considering your next big career move? In exclusive excerpts from his new book – "Who's Your City?" – Richard Florida explains why that decision should be all about location, location, location.Three crucial economic ingredients – talent, innovation, and creativity – are not distributed evenly across today's global...
Tags: BNET Feature Package, Urban Communities, Economic Conditions, Knowledge Worker, Books, Creative Class, Richard Florida, Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Nicole Solis, City, Clustering, Professional Development, Career, U.S.
Articles 2008-03-25
Office Makeovers That Boost the Bottom Line
Badly configured offices aren't just killjoys — they kill profits, too. Here's how smart companies use space to their advantage.Researchers have said for years that the physical workspace of a business factors directly into productivity, job satisfaction, and, yes — profitability. Yet relatively few companies practice what everyone...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Architecture, Office Design, Jane Hodges, Collaboration, Cubicle, BNET Feature Package, Nicole Solis, Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Workspace, Design
Articles 2008-03-03
P&G's Secret Weapon: "OR Inside"
Operations research isn't just geek science at P&G. It's how the $76 billion giant makes every crucial decision, from marketing to inventory management. For decades, Procter & Gamble mostly trusted its executives and brand managers' gut instincts to make critical decisions — when to launch a new product, say, or...
Tags: Quantitative Analysis, Analytics, Operations Research, Andrew Hines, Research & Development, Business Operations, BNET Feature Package, Nicole Solis, Marketing, Branding, Procter & Gamble Co., Brand
Articles 2008-02-14
Build a Dream Team
Bringing the right minds together for a crucial task can often be as daunting as the job itself. Here's how to draft and manage your team towards success.Have a new product to get to prototype in six months? Need to crash through a systems rebuild? Whether it's R&D, accounting, or...
Tags: Nicole Solis, BNET Feature Package, Team, Khan, Team Management, Management, Team-Building, Teamwork, Jeff Palfini
Articles 2008-01-25
Pick, Pour, and Taste Wine Like a Pro
Need to impress a wine-snob boss or client? Check out our survival guide for the resourceful wine amateur.Do you hide when the waiter approaches with the 20-page, leather-bound wine menu? Have trouble telling a viognier from a chardonnay, a sangiovese from a syrah? Enjoying a bottle of wine with friends...
Tags: Business Dinner, Michael Mattis, BNET Feature Package, Nicole Solis, Wine
Articles 2007-12-19
Be a Master M&A Negotiator
Got a big merger on the table? Here's the strategy and savvy you'll need to close the deal.On paper, it all seems so perfect: You've targeted the ideal company to acquire, the PowerPoint slides are screaming "upside," you've done your financial and legal research, and you've given the other company...
Tags: Finance, BNET Feature Package, Strategy, Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, M&A, Merger, Strategic Planning, Nicole Solis, Negotiation, Geoffrey James
Articles 2007-12-13
BNET's CEO Report Card
Forget the public view of CEOs. In BNET's exclusive new survey, top managers and execs tell us what the top boss is doing right and wrong.You know the public rap on CEOs: If they're not grossly overpaid, they're incompetent or unethical or some combination of all three. But what's the...
Tags: BNET Feature Package, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, CEO, Survey, Card, Ethan Watters, Leadership, Management, Nicole Solis, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing Research
Articles 2007-10-30
What's That MBA Really Worth?
Less and less, say increasingly vocal critics. Here's what aspiring students and hiring managers need to know about where and why the MBA is falling short.For recruiters and executives, MBAs have long been considered the holy grail of the candidate pool. And for employees, the degree is that traditional ticket...
Tags: Geoffrey James, BNET Feature Package, Nicole Solis
Articles 2007-10-16
Evaluating Potential Mergers
Shopping for an acquisition? Before you reach for your checkbook, study our tips on how to plan for and evaluate an M&A deal.A merger may seem like the quick and easy way to grow your company. But the process is complex and fraught with risk: More than 50 percent of...
Tags: Geoffrey James, Nicole Solis, Merger, Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, M&A, Investment, BNET Feature Package
Articles 2007-09-06
Debunking the IT Shortage Myth
While Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are lobbying Congress to increase the number of H-1B temporary worker visas so they can meet what they describe as a shortage of skilled technology workers, many skilled technology workers who are already in the U.S. are reporting having trouble finding jobs. InformationWeek recently explored...
Tags: Benefits, H-1B, Worker, Salary, Information Technology, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Nicole Solis
Blog posts 2007-07-23
US Automakers Shift Gears
After a decade of acquisitions of and mergers with European luxury brands (see DaimlerChrysler, Ford and Volvo, GM and Saab), American automakers are refocusing their energies on their core brands and the domestic market. In the latest news, Ford has decided to entertain offers for its...
Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Nicole Solis, Branding, Ford Motor Co., Volvo, Automobile Company, Brand, Manufacturing
Blog posts 2007-07-17
What Men Can Learn From Women in the Workplace
Women have learned to think and speak in a more linear way in order to compete effectively in the business world, Andrea Learned writes in a recent Huffington Post blog entry, but maybe it's time for men to start adopting some "female" traits, such as multitasking, listening skills, emotional emphathy,...
Tags: Learned, Gender, Women, Trait, Workplace, Gender And Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Management, Nicole Solis
Blog posts 2007-07-16
Break Your BlackBerry Addiction
Compulsively checking and responding to email can not only be disruptive to your social and professional life, it can also add stress. The Wall Street Journal recently cited an MIT study that found that people who check their email on a mobile device had increased feelings of control, but those...
Tags: RIM BlackBerry, E-mail, Handhelds, Online Communications, Hardware, Nicole Solis
Blog posts 2007-07-16
Retailers Can Improve Relationships with Customers
A recent study of 1,200 customers revealed some interesting insights into how customers view their relationships with major retailers. Some of the results were fairly obvious: 90 percent of customers surveyed place a high priority on customer service 89 percent value retailers that are easy to...
Tags: Retail, Nicole Solis, Customer, Retail Company
Blog posts 2007-07-12
Our Democratic Right to Vacation
Although you need to consider the source of budget-travel guru Arthur Frommer's blog post, boldly titled An increase in the amount of vacation time is unfinished business of our democracy," he does raise some interesting arguments from a quality-of-life perspective. But what about the business perspective? The...
Tags: Vacation, Nicole Solis
Blog posts 2007-07-13
Parents Make Better Managers
In your darker moments as a manager, you might feel like your employees are like children. "The ParentPreneur Edge: What Parenting Teaches About Building a Successful Business" takes the "businessperson as parent" conceit a step further. Author Julie Lenzer Kirk identifies five qualities that can help you...
Tags: Manager, Nicole Solis
Blog posts 2007-07-11
eBay Goes Head-to-Head with Craigslist
Last Friday, eBay launched the U.S. version of their Kijiji.com online classified site, which will directly compete with Craigslist.org. On the surface, that's not such a surprise. Online classifieds seems a natural extension of eBay's core online auction business and e-commerce brand. Some have already heaped praise on Kijiji's interface,...
Tags: E-business/E-Commerce, eBay Inc., Online Classifieds, Craigslist, Branding, Internet, Marketing, Nicole Solis
Blog posts 2007-07-06
Designing the Perfect Office
The New York Times moved into a brand-new office building this week, and already rival news sources are jumping at the opportunity to point out the weaknesses, including mice and poor office design. Putting aside the thought that this is sour-grapes reporting from journalists who might be...
Tags: Groupware, Office, Concentration, Article, Microsoft Office, Collaboration, Davenport Co., Enterprise Software, Software, Nicole Solis
Blog posts 2007-07-06
Travel Internationally with T-Mobile
Now that the hullabaloo over the iPhone has passed or at least diminished, T-Mobile might start to get some deserved attention for its new T-Mobile Hotspot@Home service. With this plan, your cell phone works like a regular cell phone, until you get within range of a wireless network (including T-Mobile's...
Tags: Wireless, Telecom & Utilities, T-Mobile, Phone, Nicole Solis
Blog posts 2007-07-05
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