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The Most Common Strategy Mistakes In a new book, Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy, Joan Magretta distills Porter's core concepts and frameworks into a concise guide for business practitioners. |
The Motley Fool
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I Like Big Moats and I Cannot Lie Do you know the most important thing Warren Buffett looks for when evaluating a company? The first thing Buffett looks for is an economic moat -- the bigger, the better. |
The Motley Fool
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These Stocks Are Gifts That'll Keep On Giving A good, solid company paying sustainable dividends is a great thing to own, especially during times when the market's near-term course is uncertain. Take a look at some stocks that fit this criteria. |
The Motley Fool
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Protect Your Wealth You never know when the next downturn will come. Growing a portfolio today isn't the only concern. Investors need to make sure that their portfolios can withstand the blow of a bear market while having enough cash on hand to scoop up bargains. |
The Motley Fool
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Software Companies With Staying Power Everything you wanted to know about moats, but were afraid to ask. |
The Motley Fool
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The Best Stock Idea I've Ever Seen The best stock ideas share some winning traits. Read on to see what they are. |
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Sell This Stock. Now. If you own shares of a company that has no real barriers to hungry competition, and it doesn't have anything in the works for the future, what do you have? Not that much, really. |
The Motley Fool
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Titillating Gains Instead of buying into short-term schemes or getting worked up about how your stocks are doing compared to how the analysts think they're doing, be a long-term investor and buy companies you'd feel confident owning even if the market shut down and you weren't able to sell. |
The Motley Fool
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IPOs.com, Version 2.0 Yes, Internet IPOs are back. But there's something more significant to consider as you evaluate IPO prospects. A full and proper valuation prices a stock based on expectations of future profitability and cash flow. |
The Motley Fool
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Warren Sticks to His Word Almost six years ago, Warren Buffett warned investors that returns for the next decade would be closer to 6% than the 10% to 12% per year that most expected. But there are a couple of strategies that investors can employ to help nudge their performance a bit higher. |
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Dear CIO... Upper management views technology as strictly operational support, rather than as a sustainable competitive advantage. How do you put an ROI analysis on something as slippery as competitive advantage? |
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Security Analysis 301: Look for a Wide Moat It's not a coincidence that the world's greatest investor invests big in businesses that have wide moats. |
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The Lessons of a Terrible Year Investors, there's nothing wrong with getting excited for the future; the Internet remains just as exciting and dynamic as in those crazy days prior to 2001. Let's hope that the lessons we've learned from that year have given us a bit more caution -- and wisdom. |
The Motley Fool
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Where the Smart Money Is Headed Today The smart money today, as with every other day, is moving with a breathtaking lack of measurable speed (or noticeable market-moving effect) into investments that have been carefully studied for a good deal of time. |
CRM
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Add Customer Satisfaction Through Analytics Companies need to improve customer value to boost profitable growth, gain insights into customers' profitability and lifetime value, and monitor customer behavior across multiple channels and social media |
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Microsoft Might Be One of the Cheapest Stocks Out There If you can look past its rivals, this is one cheap stock. |
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How to Outperform in 2005 Four tips to help find stocks that will beat the market in the year ahead. |
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Tech IPO Comeback Kids It's been a strong week for tech offerings, and the momentum may continue. Investors, keep in mind that tech IPOs are risky and often attract lots of competition. |
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3 Pillars of Successful Investing Three simple keys to picking solid stock investments. |
