Research from the Centre for Economics and
Business Research found that for every pound invested by the Foundation, # 7.73 was generated for the UK's economy.
Not exact matches
New IMF
research finds there's little benefit in providing lower taxes to small
business, since it discourages them from growing
Research from Ballihoo
found that 63 percent of consumers who search for local
businesses online are more likely to use
businesses with information on social media sites.
According to
research by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 46.6 percent of startups launched in the U.S. that are still in
business after five years are
founded by «user entrepreneurs.»
For example, if you're trying to publish statistics on small
business websites, you could collect a sample group from small
business websites you
find on your own, and use their sites to inform your
research.
But once the
research is done, many
business owners and decision makers
find that no clear leader emerges.
There was a Stanford
research project that looked at startups in Silicon Valley and
found that there were these five
business models that most of the companies fell into.
Research from Harvard
Business School's assistant professor and Hellman Faculty Fellow Alison Wood Brooks
found that people who ask questions become better managers and land better jobs.
Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth,
research by
Business News has
found.
Make sure you have a solid
business plan,
research the alternatives and
find the capital you need to launch your
business or help it grow.
No one particular
business is for everyone, but to
find one that will give you a greater chance of success, you should be prepared to devote a significant amount of time and
research.
Undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children start
businesses at twice the rate of the general population,
research finds.
«If your approach is to just buy a bunch of reports to see what's going on in the marketplace, that's not as likely to get you a return on your market
research dollars as a specific need,» says Robert Rubenstein, who spent three decades in the market
research business at Canadian corporate heavyweights Molson Breweries and TD Canada Trust before recently
founding his own startup, Horizn.
In 2010, upon finishing his doctoral thesis, Darash
founded Regpack, a registration and data - gathering
business whose core software was based on a theoretical framework he had built during his
research at Berkeley.
This guide will help you understand how your
business can benefit from competitive
research, how to conduct competitive
research, and which sources you will
find most productive.
We recently did some
research that
found nearly 40 % of small - and medium - size
businesses in Alberta were companies that each depended largely on a single client.
SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australian
businesses participated in nearly 200 corporate finance transactions in the September quarter collectively worth $ 4.8 billion,
research by
Business News has
found.
Everyone knows that market
research is key to getting your
business off the ground, but there are things you must
find out regarding specialty foods that can make or break your new venture.
Find people who are familiar with the market, the
business model, and any other players; people who have been there, done that, and can give you insight and perspective that you may not have thought of on your own, or only come to understand after hours of
research.
I
found some good
research from Harvard
Business School, Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship, which suggest that serial entrepreneurs that have prior success are more likely to have success, and that the best VCs are good at picking serial entrepreneurs.
While accelerator programs have long offered this perk to startups, usually in exchange for equity, entrepreneurs are
finding other types of free space available, says Steve King, partner at Emergent
Research, a consulting firm focused on small
business in Lafayette, Calif..
It's time for entrepreneurs and
business leaders to get involved, because
finding creative solutions to these challenges will require not just great political leadership and innovative
research, but a transformation of
business itself.
The
research crunches numbers to determine the cost to large companies of having all - male executive boards running the show, and while it's far from the first report to conclude a lack of gender diversity is a terrible idea from a
business perspective, this analysis produced one particular attention - grabbing
finding.
Couple this with
research from Inside Sales which
found that, when
businesses are ready to buy, up to half go with the vendor they first spoke to and it's clear you need to keep on top of your sales pipeline at all times.
When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and
research associate at York University's Schulich School of
Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he
found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.
According to marketing
research, more consumers trust the Internet to help them
find local
businesses in their area and learn more about them.
The Tax Foundation recently published
research that
found America's top rate of
business tax — 35 per cent — is the highest amongst the 34 industrialized nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Small
businesses that had access to the resources of regional
business networks
found them nearly irreplaceable, the
research by Optimal Solutions Group
found.
Below, you'll
find articles, galleries and infographics that chronicle the ups and downs of the
business world, including a comic recap of
Research In Motion's annus horribilis.
But that doesn't mean most
business leaders can't learn something valuable from the core
finding of the Facebook
research project, which is, «If you want to keep your people — especially your stars — it's time to pay more attention to how you design their work.»
Founded on its mission to advance learning and knowledge through teaching and
research particularly in science, technology, engineering, management, and
business studies.
As a
research - based thought leader whose reputation for client focus is recognized industry - wide, its
business model is
founded on strong client engagement backed by comprehensive competitive insights driven by data.
The
finding is not limited to those at the very top: when she extended her
research, published in a recent edition of the Harvard
Business Review, to include the careers of 14,000 lower - level executives, she reached similar conclusions.
Continuing
research at Babson College, regarded as having one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the country,
finds no statistical correlation between a startup firm's ultimate revenue or net income and the supposedly requisite written
business plan.
Through my
research, I've
found eight benefits that your growing
business can achieve relatively simply through automation in 2018.
I didn't set out to start a franchised
business, but when
researching available
business opportunities to better understand the eco-friendly market, I
found EcoMaids compelling.
The Center for American Progress reviewed 30 case studies in 11 of the most relevant
research papers on the costs of employee turnover and
found that it costs
businesses about one - fifth of a worker's salary to replace that worker.
But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small
business: you'll
find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to
find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for
research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.
«One of our most surprising (at least to us) 2016
research findings was the extent to which successful small
businesses are using coaches.
While some
research has
found that companies with completed
business plans are twice as likely to grow their
business, busy entrepreneurs might be reluctant to dig in and revise theirs when circumstances change.
A new study from the National Bureau of Economic
Research has
found that tax policy has a dramatic impact on
businesses and, if raised too high, could drive consumers to the black market.
If it looks as though your firm is a contender for either ranking, our
research team will contact you starting in March 2018 to
find out more about your
business and to verify your financial data.
When seeking funding for your
business, do your
research and
find what works for you according to Wanderu founder Polina Raygorodskaya and Away co-founder Jen Rubio.
«There's way more data than there has ever been,» he says, «and it's the job of people in market
research to try to
find a way of taking all of this data, reducing it to a story and explaining to our clients how they should change their
business as a result of what we learned through this.»
Even so, the Guardian Life Small
Business Research Institute
found in a new study that, for small
businesses, their Websites were more important as sales - generation tools than any social media strategy.
A new report from BI Intelligence,
Business Insider's premium
research service, examines what's driving this shift to mobile P2P and explains why companies need to
find a way to capitalize on it quickly.
There may even be a very strong
business case for it: Recent
research by «Project: Time Off» has
found that taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion (by as much as 6.5 percent)!
Small -
business owners «are having to do a lot more digging to
find the opportunities, and since the opportunities are fewer, they have more competition with other small
businesses,» says Julie Weeks, an American Express
research advisor and author of the report.
So you've decided to purchase an existing
business instead of starting from scratch and you've done some initial
research to
find out more about the
business you're thinking of buying.
We've
found in our
research that when
business professionals not only maintain an optimistic, resilient, solutions - focused mindset but also transmit that to others, they fuel better
business outcomes across the board.»