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The Myths and Realities of Being a Product Manager

Harvard Business

Product management has become an aspirational career. A group of popular social media influencers regularly offers advice on what it takes to attain a job and succeed in this field. But their content tends to glamorize the profession, gloss over the day-to-day-realities, and dispense wisdom that isn’t always on point.

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What’s Next for Nigerian Production Studio EbonyLife Media?

Harvard Business

EbonyLife Media CEO Mo Abudu considers how to move forward in her quest to tell authentic African stories to the world.

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Top 10 Manufacturing Capacity Planning Tools

Epicflow

Facilitating productive project work. These factors contribute to increasing team members’ productivity. It has solutions for strategic portfolio management, project portfolio management, product portfolio management, and professional services automation. More effective decision-making. Assess data security.

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The Blockchain Will Do to Banks and Law Firms What the Internet Did to Media

Harvard Business

Like the internet, this technology is designed to be decentralized, with “layers,” where each layer is defined by an interoperable open protocol on top of which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and services. The TCP/IP protocol was used to address and control how packets of data were routed between computers.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing campaigns.

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Research: What Happens When Influencers Turn Off Comments

Harvard Business

Influencers are often targets of online negativity, and how they respond to this feedback can have important ramifications for their personal brands and the effectiveness of their product endorsements.

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I Ran 4 Experiments to Break My Social Media Addiction. Here’s What Worked.

Harvard Business

Social media can connect us to new ideas, help us share our work, and allow previously unheard voices to influence culture. Over the last two years, I conducted four different experiments to monitor my own behavior, implementing trackers and blockers in order to better understand how social media usage affected my productivity.

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