Collected Wisdom on Business and Life from the HBS Class of 1963
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of the ages, may be preserved by quotation.” — Isaac D’Israeli Browsing my tweetstream I ran into this wonderful website the other day and instantly retweeted it, but also made a note to come back to have a deeper look. On doing so, I decided it was […]
Social media ROI smackdown: What your business can’t afford to ignore
Harvard Business School professor, Frank V. Cespedes, debates the value of social media and offers important and practical advice to companies and marketers.
Why Completely Trusting Enterprise Software Review Sites Is A Bad Idea
The scope, scale and variety of enterprise software review sites continues to accelerate, each promising a true glimpse into a buyer’s experience. These sites include Credii, G2Crowd, Google Apps Marketplace, Microsoft’s Pinpoint, LinkedIn, Trustradius, Salesforce AppExchange, and many others. Each of these sites claims to have safeguards in place to ensure authenticity of reviews. A few including G2Crowd are positioning themselves as Yelp for Software. […]
Salesforce Riding High, Opens Dreamforce
Salesforce.com is riding the crest of wave after wave of good news as it starts Dreamforce, its annual convocation for customers, prospects, the press and analyst communities. Forty thousand people are expected in San Francisco for the event at some point in the week. In a sign of how big this event has become, last […]
Is Fashion Stake Legal? Fashion Stake Crowdsources Haute Couture
A major problem in the fashion industry is that it is very difficult for a new designer to “break the code” that enables a distribution capability, so as a result we have few brands dominating the retail landscape and a couture business that while garnering headlines actually generates very little in the way of actual […]
