Economy
Failure Is a Constant in Entrepreneurship
By: Scott A. Shane
As a professor of entrepreneurship, I am often asked about the survival rates of new businesses. Students, entrepreneurs, reporters and many other people want to know how many new businesses live and die.
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Are Depressions Necessary?
By: Christopher Hayes
Economists, particularly those of the ascendant Chicago school of free market enthusiasts, were in a triumphant mood at the beginning of this decade. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in 2003, Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas went so far as to say that macro-economics — with its focus on [...]
How to Grow Your Business When Everything Else Is Shrinking
By: Scott Morgan
Budgets continue to be slashed. Brands are disappearing. Media is getting more fragmented. The only thing getting bigger is our federal deficit. So as a marketer, how do you capitalize on a world that is getting smaller in so many respects?
You could ignore it and keep doing things the same way — [...]
Offshore Outsourcing: Pay Attention to Foreign Exchange Rates or Pay the Price
From: www.cio.com
– Stephanie Overby, CIO
July 09, 2009
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There are many matters to consider when setting up an offshore outsourcing deal—scope, location, roles and responsibilities, service levels, governance plans and price, just to name a few.
The effect [...]
This Year's Management Off Site: Necessary or Negligent?
by Melissa Raffoni
Cuts, cuts, cuts. Rightsizing, rightsizing, rightsizing. How can a conscientious CEO–one who has asked employees to contain costs, or who has even frozen or reduced their salaries–even consider spending money to take his or her leadership team off to some nice hotel with rich food and cocktails for a management retreat?
Historically, for most [...]
Everyone else reads it
By Seth Godin
he reason the New York Times matters isn’t about the delivery of news (it’s old by the time it arrives) or even the analysis (which is often spotty or wrong or banal or biased or boring). No, the reason it matters is because everyone else reads it.
That’s the reason certain trade shows matter.
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Finally, A CEO Speaks Up on How to Renew America
by Steve Prokesch
HBR Editors’ Blog
A couple of weeks ago I met with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt and we were talking about the financial meltdown, the deep recession, and what it would take to fix America. He was outspoken about how business and government had let down the American people and the need for radical change.
That’s [...]
What Are You Afraid Of?
Our experts deconstruct your worst nightmares and show you how to deal.
By Lindsay Holloway | Entrepreneur Magazine – July 2009
URL: http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2009/july/202310.html
Admit it.You’re scared out of your mind. Whether it’s financial stress, uncertainty about the business partners you’ve chosen or just plain fear of failure, some aspect of starting your own business is [...]
5 Ways to Keep Debt Collectors at Bay
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By Diana Ransom
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AS THE CREDIT CRUNCH rages on, debt collectors have become even more aggressive. And while consumers are largely shielded from debt collectors’ more obtrusive money-gathering techniques, business owners have few protections.
Barbara Clark, co-owner of Healthy Home Insulation, a spray foam insulation contactor in Vero Beach, Fla., found this [...]
Credit Bailout: Issuers Slashing Card Balances
By DAVID STREITFELD
The banks were bailed out last fall, the automobile companies last winter. For Edward McClelland, a writer in Chicago, deliverance finally arrived a few days ago.
Mr. McClelland’s credit card company was calling yet again, wondering when it could expect the next installment on his delinquent account. He proposed paying half of his $5,486 [...]