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Here are a few great ideas from Heather Oldani, senior director of communications and Steve Wilson, senior director of global web communications for McDonald’s, on how McDonald’s is using social…
When business conditions change as dramatically as they have in the past year, CEOs need to be able to rely on their best leaders to adapt quickly. But what should…
What makes visionary entrepreneurs such as Apple’s Steve Jobs, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Ebay’s Pierre Omidyar and Meg Whitman, and P&G’s A.G. Lafley tick? In a question-and-answer session with HBR contributing…
“The two most powerful words you can use in a headline are FREE and NEW. You can seldom use FREE, but you can always use NEW.” So says ad man…
In June, Facebook attracted 24 million new unique visitors with 340 million unique visitors/month, surpassing Wikipedia as the fourth largest site in the world. Twitter’s unique visitors totaled 44.5 million…
Since Galvan started using Twitter four months ago, he estimates his sales have doubled. “What helps the most is that the chefs who follow my updates can actually see the…
The money flowed like beer at a frat party. We hired people right and left – even though we didn’t have time to orient them and put their talents to…
To advance its efforts the company promoted Ron Bagley to director of compact formats, a newly created position. Bagley, whose most recent position was director of operations, merchandising, will report…
A shop aimed at fishermen within a mile of the sea on every side seems bound to succeed, but when Harding ,41, moved in, its turnover was low. “The shop…
Past studies have shown that when people interact, they tend to affirm their commonalities. Two colleagues who are both fans of a particular sports team, for example, will talk about…
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