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Street Cred: How One Spa Entrepreneur Is Navigating The COVID-19 Crisis

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It’s hard to find a retail resume that’s more impressive than Joyce Hampers’. She has capitalized on her experience by changing directions. It was so successful that she expanded in 1998 and then again in 2001. She is right in the eye of the retail hurricane known as the coronavirus. Assistant Secretary of Commerce.

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Roots—Not Just Branches

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Leadership Team—Citizens Bank of Las Cruces’ executive management team, from left: Jed Fanning, Tim Hargrove, Ruth Christopher and George Ruth. Retail locations: Six. Since 2001, we have received the distinguished recognition by Independent Banker as a “Best of the Best” community bank, 14 of the past 15 years. Las Cruces, N.M.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

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It also owns 50 subsidiary companies that have 200 more subsidiaries themselves, including Geico (acquired in 1996), Dairy Queen (1997), and Fruit of the Loom (2001). You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” ( 2001 ). In spring 2001, Cisco’s shareholders had lost a total of 28.6% table of contents.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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When mobile phone company Danger Inc was created in the heady days of 2000 with execs from Apple, Phillips, and WebTV, it looked like a leadership dream team. In the early 2000s, venerable retailers Sears and Kmart began losing ground to Walmart and Target, with Kmart even filing for Chapter 11 in 2002. Date: September 3, 2001.

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

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Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: CapitalG, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

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21 Lessons From Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letters To Shareholders

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And nowhere is Bezos’ philosophy of business, technology, and leadership better articulated than in his annual shareholder letters, which he has written every year since the company’s IPO in 1997. 2001: Measure your company by your free cash flow. 2017: Build high standards into company culture. Just execute.