Author Archives: Ed Duke

Crosscurrents in Philantropy

Crosscurrents in Philanthropy Susan Raymond, managing director of research, evaluation and strategic planning at Changing Our World, predicted that the globalization of corporate operations could prompt many businesses to increase the amount of corporate giving they do overseas, which may cause cutbacks in domestic giving. No figures were given. If philanthropic giving by corporations declines in the coming years, charities ...

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Life 2.0

Know where the Corporations will be with their happy and healthy worker-volunteers, and most of all, know that the money will be there too. That is the basis of a new book titled, “Life 2.0; How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness”, Crown Business, by Rich Karlgaard. Americans have always had an ...

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ShareBuilder Ranks High

A study by Change Sciences Group ranks ShareBuilder number one for ease of use of Web-based brokerages. The study evaluated the site’s ability to inspire investors trust and assisting new investors in detrermining goals and risk types. This award follows one by Forbes as “Best of the Web” in the broker catagory, in Winter 2003. It is ease, to be ...

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Harvaed Business Review, 3 articles on Innovation

The July-August 2004 Harvard Business Review had 3 articles on innovation. Darwin and the Demon, Innovating Within Established Enterpises, by Geoffrey A. Moore. Moore draws a life-cycle model and shows that enterprises must mutate the core comptences over time to sustain attractive returne. There is Application, Disruptive, Product, Process, Experimental, Marketing, Business Model, and Structural Innovation. In Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s ...

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