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Undergraduate Viewpoints on Social Networks and Music
Following is a guest post by my partner Jason Mendelson. All of the thoughts and grammar errors are his. All of the formatting errors are mine.
Going for Growth
Growth has become Africa's new development strategy, according to panellists at the plenary session. They believe that the high growth rates being experienced by many countries can be sustained through political stability and good macroeconomic policies. However, it is also true that high oil and commodity prices had helped to push up the continent's growth rate to a 30 year high of 5.5% in 2005.

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SEXUAL HARASSMENT – THE CAREER KILLER
Simply stated, you never in your career want to deal with the HR department on the receiving end of a disciplinary action. A very large percentage of disciplinary actions take by the HR department involve the following. - Quid pro quo Sexual Harassment - Hostile Work Environment - A combination of the above

Finance & Economics Books
Some free finance & economics books available - improve your financial IQ
Finance: More Than Number Crunchers
Finance: More Than Number Crunchers - When someone from the Financial department walks into a room of people from the sales and marketing departments, the conversation dies down and everyone waits for the killjoy to leave. But it doesn't have to be this way! In this article, you'll read about the common problem that businesses have – the idea that the Finance department just sits around to crunch numbers and suck all the fun out of the work place – and you'll read about a potential solution – three ideas that can turn the Finance department into success-generating business developers who empower the sales department to thrive.

Landing Pages – The Key to Turning Potential Customers into Paying Clients
How many of you have ever wandered around a department store looking for a simple but elusive item? How many times have you gone from one department to the next wishing someone would tell you exactly where to find what you’re looking for? As a customer this is a frustrating experience, and the store just might lose you as a customer. Here’s a question: When someone clicks on your banner or PPC ad, are they directed to your home page? If your answer is yes, then you may have many customers needlessly wandering around your department store, too.

HR Department Basic Functions
Even though there are many ways to structure an HR department, most of them generally look the same. They are typically made up of “generalists” or “specialists” or some combination thereof. Sometimes one generalist will oversee a group of specialists and sometimes the reverse is true depending on the needs of the organization and the available talent on hand. But in all, whether you have a formalized HR department or not, there are a few necessary skill sets that make up, and round out the overall practice.
Business strategy is to save resources - Outsource Accounting Function
Ideally accounting department is always a back office functioning department let it me in house or offshore. Building an in house accounting department could results in huge capital expenditure. A few of key investment drivers are space, equipments, manpower, time and technology. And same resources can be diverted to achieve the organizational goals and objectives, that is, allowing companies to focus on their core business - and save money.
Customer preception of waiting
This article shares the results of a study conducted at The School of Business and Economics at North Caroline AT&T University. The report focused on the customer's perception of delay before receiving services. A small group activity is included for the purpose of discussion of what your site/department/business can do to affect customer satisfaction.
WHY ISN'T UPPER MANAGEMENT FURIOUS about the 600# Gorilla in their living room named -- sales lead "Follow-up?"
The Marketing department gets sales leads to the Sales department faster... so nothing can be done with them sooner. WHY is that behavior tolerated? Or is the reason obvious?

One Economist to Rule Them All? Really? Do We Have To?
Last night on TV Ontario I participated in a roundtable discussion about economists’ culpability in the current financial mess, as well as about its potential for doing anything useful as we try to get out. On the one side, you had Ken Rogoff, arguing somewhat in favor of economics’ continuing credibility. On the other side you had Dan Ariely, arguing against orthodox economics, but in favor of its behavioral variant.

Preparing an Accurate Marketing Budget
Although every department is expected to prepare an annual budget, most do not understand the intrinsic value of effectively leveraging this management process. Take a step back from the budget and evaluate what your department will be expected to deliver this year. Next, identify which budget model will provide the most value to your department. Use Demand Metric’s downloadable Department Budget Template to help you prepare your annual budget.
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