Hints and tips:
...Running my own business was a pipe dream. I chose the name Billion Dollar Boy after my favourite singer, Pharrell Williams, who has a fashion label, Billionaire Boys Club....
...Polysemy is a tricksy business — I can be curious as to whether my dog has emptied the bin; I am not positive about it....
...It runs as a public benefit corporation, “creating open-source software that medical regulators can use to rapidly understand how a study design operates and form confident opinions”, per its website....
...Instead, it simply acts as a broker for State National Insurance Corporation, a subsidiary of insurance giant Markel....
...But it is a nascent area where we are just as well off doing it ourselves....
...Grit in the oyster Many companies and investors say they try to “do well by doing good”. As a reminder that many still fall short, here’s a little grit in the ESG oyster....
...The free one-hour session will include polling and audience Q&A. Register here....
...Xiaomi Corporation SECTOR: TECHNOLOGY / HQ: BEIJING, CHINA Huawei’s horrible year has been a windfall for China’s other big smartphone maker....
...business as usual....
...“As much as I miss Doug, and [his death] almost killed me, sometimes I pinch myself that I’ve led this life for so long. Even on the worst days, I love what I’m doing....
...Checking this against what Tesla said in the first quarter highlights a similar variance between the company's press release and 10-Q for that period as well....
...Back in July it raised $164m at a valuation of $1.6bn. After a round trip which took the business to a $20bn valuation, at pixel it was worth over $10bn....
...Nike has made efforts to rebrand itself as an ethical and sustainable business, he says, but any deviation from that narrative could spur a backlash....
...So it was notably uncomfortable when — for a full three minutes of precious Q&A time — the minister of finance from Djibouti (pop. of ~900k, nominal GDP of $3.1bn) gave the hard sell to Ma, the diminutive...
...Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, said in an online Q&A last December that her MBA from Harvard Business School was not necessary to get a job at her employer....
...It looks more like the campus of a California tech company, such as Pixar or Google, than the outskirts of an industrial estate in Isleworth....
...Canterbury Development Corporation estimates there was 446,000 sq m of office space in the central business district prior to the earthquakes, which fell to a low of 104,000 sq m by 2013....
...In a remarkable reversal of protocol, President Obama even volunteered to act as moderator for Jack at a Q&A session during the November 2015 APEC meeting in Manila....
...“At Google, we’re not in the business of building roads,” he says....
...Perhaps it was a bit much to expect an American version of James Bond’s Q Branch, but the Apple “campus” is disappointingly . . . well . . . normal....
...Perhaps it was a bit much to expect an American version of James Bond’s Q Branch, but the Apple “campus” is disappointingly… well… normal....
...As soon as possible, I discover the “how to” get along and ahead within the culture and then get very good at doing so....
...I love the tradition in this method as it’s something HBS has been doing since day one....
...New business models that blend the worlds of fashion and technology, such as Farfetch’s, are increasingly common in London, one of the few cities in the world that is a centre for both industries....
...As a GMAT teacher and a student at University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, I can tell you from first hand experience that this approach is enormously helpful....
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