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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business

Case Study #1: Make small adjustments to your environment, and look for ways to enhance your job description. ” Case Study #2: Look for meaning outside of the traditional professional realm — and be willing to take a risk. Finances were a consideration. Put all your eggs in your professional basket.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. And here’s to an even better 2017!” It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” We could never have achieved it without all of you!

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Why CRM Projects Fail and How to Make Them More Successful

Harvard Business

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. PM Images/Getty Images. That was actually an average of a dozen analyst reports.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Case Study: Blue Apron. that aggregate sales in the U.S.

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Should Dual-Class Shares Be Banned?

Harvard Business

Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

Collectively, the D5 nations serve two important purposes for our project: They give us a way to construct a global benchmark that can be used to assess D5 nations and other countries, and they each offer a case study and model for what smart can look like. The outcomes of this exercise are shown in the exhibits below.