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IBM: Big Fat Global Plans
IBM has been around for nearly a century but they're nimble, moving with the times. CEO Palmisano has new plans to create a beautiful, globalized, multinational world and since two-thirds of their revenue now comes from outside the US, he just might do it.
Tags: nasdaq, invest, stock stock exchange, julie alexandria, wallstrip, analysts, howard lindzon, international business machines, Plan, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Productivity, computers, software, networking, communications, britney, nyse, investing, stocks, mutual funds, global
Videos 2008-06-02
Weighing the Pros and Cons of a Career Break
Career breaks have never been more popular, as overworked employees look for some time away from their same old, same old routine. Most often people have one of two motivations for taking time off: either other priorities demand attention, or there's a need to get away and gain some perspective...
Tags: BNET Editorial, Career, Professional Development, Plan, Employer, Break, Job, Organization
Articles 2008-01-03
My Juggling Act
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I'm an organized person -- even obsessively so. I love to plan and put things in order just right, and I'm hugely detail-oriented. Luckily, this kind of behavior comes in handy when you go back to school: Finding a balance between work,...
Tags: Internet, Plan, School, Jenna Miller
Blog posts 2007-11-13
Planning a Crisis Management Strategy
When companies experience a major problem that threatens their business, they need to react quickly and effectively to protect their reputations. Providing clear information to customers and the media can build support and help the company to recover quickly. An important part of the process is having a crisis management...
Tags: Reputation, Media, Crisis, Plan, Crisis Management, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-11-02
Preparing a Succession Plan
If you're planning to retire from your small business in the near future, or you simply want to hand over the reins to someone else, it's important to plan carefully for your succession. Planning will help you to protect the value of your business. As the owner-manager of a business,...
Tags: consultant, entrepreneurial, decision-making, financial, small business, career, consulting, supplier, benefit, team, Succession Plan, Team Management, Leadership, Family Member, Business, Successor, BNET Editorial, Management, Plan, Succession, Succession Planning
Articles 2007-10-05
Frontier Asks for Bankruptcy Court Extension
Frontier has filed a request with the bankruptcy court to ask for an extra 120 days to file their plan of reorganization without having to allow for competing plans. Right now, it's due on February 4 (already extended 120 days once before), and they're asking for it to go...
Tags: Plan, Bankruptcy, Objections, Litigation, Business Operations, Brett Snyder
Blog posts 2009-01-07
Medicare Advantage Plans Pump Up Premiums
From the “truth-is-stranger-than-fiction” department: Just as President Obama and the Democratic Congress are getting ready to cut subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans by 15 percent, these companies have increased 2009 premiums to Medicare beneficiaries by 13 percent, on average. That’s five times as much as these charges grew in 2008,...
Tags: Medicare, Plan, Beneficiary, Healthcare, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2009-02-05
DSP Group, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Daniel Amir – Lazard Capital Markets. Daniel Amir – Lazard Capital Markets First of all, considering your big decline in sales a couple of questions related to that. First of all, the magnitude...
Tags: Call Transcript, Plan, Earnings, Semiconductors, Hardware, Seeking Alpha, DSP Group
Earnings calls 2009-02-02
Dropcard Adds Features, Rate Plans
Remember Dropcard, the free service that lets you exchange contact information using just your cell phone? It's a favorite here at Business Hacks, and now it's even better thanks to some new features that just rolled out. As you may recall, Dropcard works...
Tags: Plan, Dropcard, E-mail, Online Communications, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2009-03-05
Columbia's McGrath Lays Out "Discovery-Driven" Strategy for Uncertain Times
Woody Allen once said, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." Though God probably isn't paying much attention to the PowerPoints and business planning documents that corporate strategists use to chart the course for their organizations, many of those plans are driven by...
Tags: Checkpoint, Plan, Columbia, Strategy, Management, Jeremy Dann
Blog posts 2009-03-18
How To Do Account Planning: Video
Here's another top-notch video from Ian Gilbert, CEO of the British sales training firm ThirdCore.  Here he explains exactly how to do account planning, adding some tips from some of the most successful salespeople in the world.   His message jives exactly with what I've heard from many top sales reps, but...
Tags: Video, Plan, Summary, Corporate Communications, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Management, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2009-03-19
Medicare Cuts and Reform May Lead to Insurance Mergers
The Obama Administration’s 4.5 percent pay cut to Medicare Advantage plans for 2010, while a bit less than expected, is helping to fuel rumors that some major health insurers will merge. Aetna is said to be interested in taking over Humana, and United is reportedly eyeing Coventry. ...
Tags: Medicare, Insurance Company, Health Care, Plan, Obama Administration, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2009-04-09
Some Myths About The Public Plan, Pro and Con
The debate over the inclusion of a public health plan in the forthcoming healthcare reform legislation is heating up. Not surprisingly, much of the debate revolves around the comparison between the track records of Medicare and private insurance. Jacob Hacker, an author and a fellow at the New America Foundation,...
Tags: Provider, Medicare, Insurance Company, Plan, Jacob Hacker, Healthcare, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2009-04-17
Iberdrola Renewables and Sempra Generation Each Planning 300MW of Clean Energy
Another 600 megawatts of power from the sun and wind could be coursing through power lines by next year, if the plans of two major companies, Iberdrola Renewables and Sempra Generation, are successful in their plans. Iberdrola is suffering through a rough patch, having just told investors that its...
Tags: First Solar Inc., Plan, Clean Technology, Iberdrola, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-04-23
Cigna University Offers an Easy-A Courseload... For Cost-Shifting to Consumers
Health-insurance companies like Cigna are busy ramping up warm-and-fuzzy PR efforts intended to deflect the loathing of their members, but their intentions go well beyond spiffing up their corporate image. The new "Cigna University" campaign, for instance, isn't much more than a pitch for "consumer-directed" health plans that force individuals...
Tags: CIGNA Corp., Public Relations, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton, Health Care, Plan
Blog posts 2008-11-19
Healthcare Reform Kicks Into High Gear
Just one month ago, the conventional wisdom in Washington -- here personified by inside-the-Beltway health guru Bob Laszewski -- was that the economic crisis and a vast federal bailout package had effectively killed any chance for an overhaul of the nation's creaky healthcare system. Don't count on...
Tags: Health Care, Plan, U.S. Senate, Obama Plan, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-11-12
Are You Changing Your PR Plans This Week?
This is a very strange time in public communications. On one hand, you've got a full-fledged Wall Street crisis and a contentious Presidential campaign dominating the news. But on the other, it feels mostly like business-as-usual. This crisis doesn't seem to be griping the business community as completely as, say,...
Tags: Plan, Public Relations, Open Source, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jon Greer
Blog posts 2008-09-23
How to Find Your Next CEO
It's never been easy for a company's board to plan for the departure of a chief executive. Thanks to the pressures of our present economy, boards are facing that task more frequently than ever before. Here's our guide to managing a CEO's succession, no matter why...
Tags: Board, Plan, CEO, Candidate, Minow, Lawless, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Succession Planning, BNET Crash Course, Board of Directors, Jennifer Alsever
Articles 2009-02-17
Leap Wireless International Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first call comes from David Barden – Bank of America. David Barden – Bank of America I think you probably know there's been a lot of focus on ARPU in the business model and its as people think about the longer term potential in...
Tags: Call Transcript, Plan, Earnings, Leap Wireless International Inc., Product Marketing, Marketing, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-02-26
WellPoint, Inc., Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Josh Raskin from Barclays Capital. Please go ahead. Joshua Raskin - Barclays Capital Hi, thanks. Good morning. Question is really the high deductible health plans, I guess in this new world that we are speaking...
Tags: WellPoint Inc., Barclays Plc., Call Transcript, Health Care, Plan, Earnings, Seasonality, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-04-22
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