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- Expanding Overseas: The Best Mid-Size Markets
- Relatively stable and foreigner-friendly, these growing mid-size markets offer expansion opportunities in regions less vulnerable to the current global economic slowdown. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} .expansionPic p...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- Expanding Overseas: The Best Large Markets
- The world’s largest foreign markets are all growing — and making it easier for western companies to join their economies. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} .expansionPic p {...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- Expanding Overseas:The Best Small Markets
- Thanks to job growth and newfound political stability, these smaller markets present a big opportunity for U.S. and other western companies to expand. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} ...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- 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
- How to Fire the Employee Who's Holding You Back
- Donald Trump makes it look easy, but the words you're fired are always difficult to say. Here's how to let an employee go the right way, breaking the news firmly but gently so you can get your team back on track. Treat Dismissal As an...
- Articles 2007-03-20
- How to Get Your Customers to Solve Problems for You
- Crowdsourcing is a technique that sophisticated companies use to translate the enthusiasm of their most highly-engaged customers into valuable marketing. Decide If You Really Care What Your Customers Think GOAL: Engage in a true dialog with your customers, or don't bother at all. ...
- Articles 2007-03-07
- For Boeing, It Takes a Village to Build a New Airplane
- America's top aerospace firm tapped the wisdom of its global suppliers to design the new 787 Dreamliner.Preparing a model of the 787 Dreamliner for a wind-tunnel test. Boeing enlisted 100 of its suppliers to help design the plane.Imagine for a moment that you're launching one of the most important products...
- Articles 2007-03-08
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- The Last Green Mile
- So let's say this whole alternative-energy craze inspires you and me to rethink our energy consumption. Who can we call to help change our carbon-choked ways? At the moment, that's problematic. We'd need to find a mom-and-pop solar dealer or maybe a local electrician or construction guy who understands the...
- Articles 2007-06-01
- Is That Bamboo In Your Pants?
- It has been more than a decade since Patagonia gave us fleece jackets made from recycled soda bottles. Since then, the greening of outdoor gear has gone both high tech and haute cuisine. Timberland , the $1.6 billion apparel company, will introduce the equivalent of nutritional labels for...
- Articles 2006-12-01
- Parental Consent
- When Himabindu Marichetty showed up to talk about a job at software development firm Virtusa in Hyderabad, India, the 24-year-old college grad wore a traditional Asian outfit called a salwar kameez and brought a résumé, her handbag--and her father. Marichetty's father didn't negotiate for her, but he did...
- Articles 2006-12-01
- A Mushroom in Your Tank?
- How to save the world and make a fortune? Come up with an alternative to petroleum. Countless companies, backed by billions in investments, are trying. Here's how some of the more esoteric efforts stack up. Dyadic International Jupiter, FL Proposition: Improve efficiency of corn-based ethanol production with...
- Articles 2006-09-01
- What a Croc!
- Lyndon "Duke" Hanson knew he and his partners had hit on something big when the fire marshal at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, boat show started yelling that the crowd gathered around their Crocs' shoe booth was blocking the aisles. Hanson was tossing pairs of his company's colorful boating shoes at...
- Articles 2006-06-01
- What Executives Learn at Summer Camp
- Being a kid is pretty neat: You have no responsibilities, most of your needs are provided for, and as a bonus, you often get to go to summer camp, where adventure spreads out like the night sky. In fact, camp can be such a transforming experience, why should it be...
- Articles 2005-09-01
- Entrepreneurs learn from their mistakes
- Startups are easier the second time around Let's say you start a company. You work ridiculously hard, grow your business and sell out big. Then, you go sail around the world. Right? It might seem like the perfect scenario, but the early retirement part isn't what seems to happen for...
- Articles 2005-09-01
- Computers will work for you if you work first
- It's a scenario Matt Martincich knows by heart: The computers crash, and sales at his Bozeman, Mont., natural foods store come to a halt. Cashiers can't ring up a sale until a manual cash register is pulled out, and Martincich then waits for hours on the phone for tech support....
- Articles 2005-06-01
- The Ethics Monitor
- How ethical are we, really? Most of us decry the manifest immorality at WorldCom and Enron. But truth be told, we're prone ourselves to occasional ethical lapses in the workplace. Every three months, we'll survey readers at Fast Company 's Web site on the little white lies of business. This...
- Articles 2005-05-01
- Journey to "Serious Games"
- Your gray cubicle surroundings recede as you enter a virtual world of kaleidoscopic visuals. You control rocks that float across the screen by calming down and keep a fire lit with rhythmic breathing. Ahhhh. The Journey to Wild Divine , an "inner-active" biofeedback game, doesn't...
- Articles 2005-05-01
- Green savings mean green profits
- Consumers loved it when Wild Oats Markets introduced compostable containers for its deli, salad bar and cut fruit. "Our sales went up 7 percent over six months in 11 stores in the Pacific Northwest," says Sonja Tuitele, spokeswoman for the 108-store natural foods chain. "That told us that consumers are...
- Articles 2005-03-01
- Program aims to give shoppers more parking in Denver neighborhood.
- By Jennifer Alsever, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 9--Cherry Creek North merchants are footing the bill for an unusual program to get more employees to ride their bikes to work and free up parking spaces for shoppers. ...
- Articles 2004-08-09
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