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How Telecom Expense Management Benefits Large Scale Enterprises

Strategy Driven

This is where telecom expense management companies play a crucial role for your P&L. Technology Asset Management. While you may have the staff to suggest solutions, your Accounts Payable function does not necessarily have the manpower to monitor the resulting expenses.

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Why Verizon's iPhone Could Be Good for AT&T

Harvard Business Review

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The movement has been building for years, from P&G opening up its product development pipeline early in the 2000s to the launch of the GreenXchange for sharing green patents early in 2010. Watch this space.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. In his November newsletter , he demonstrated exactly how much of a drag on the U.S. economy commodity prices have become.