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Jim Donnelly
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All articles of Jim Donnelly
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UPDATE: HBS marketing a new business model?
But that’s the unfortunate truth for local agency HBS Marketing, a creative shop headed by Don Hewson. Indeed, the company’s ... -
Synergizing solutions into revectored deliverables
Does the above language sound like you, or someone you know in the business community? Do you miss the English of yesteryear, when a solution was ... -
LOOK AHEAD 2010: Technology in the year 2010
DEBBIE WEINSTEIN, partner at Labarge Weinstein We had a very busy 2009 for mergers and acquisitions and some public company financing, and this ... -
Enablence grants stock options to directors, officials
The company's board presented a total of 1.55 million options to non-employee directors, officers, employees and consultants, Enablence ... -
UPDATE: Nortel enters US$282M sale agreement with...
The bid involves VoIP assts in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia, along with CVAS assets in Europe, the Middle East and ... -
Asset tracking firm connects south of the border
The real-time asset tracking firm said in a statement that the service will allow the Globalstar subsidiary to monitor customers' fleets and ... -
Phreesia lays off local staff: Sources
"Over half the staff" at the company's Ottawa facility have been let go since November, according to a recent former employee with the firm who ... -
Dragons for a day
He was explaining why the group of several dozen of us were snugly gathered at the Queen's University's EMBA downtown facility, on a grey ... -
Jim Treliving and the art of the deal
"My dad's nickname was 'the banker,'" he grins, recalling growing up in a small town in Manitoba. A self-employed barber with a couple of ... -
The Indians are coming ... wait, they're already here
No doubt some of you first took serious note of the enterprise after the 2007 introduction of its "people's car," the Nano, which ... -
Israel: 'We are the startup nation'
Many young Israelis tend to jet off for a year of backpacking in India immediately after performing their required military service (18 to ... -
Credit freeze or media frenzy?
The most surprising, though, was about the credit freeze panic, which as we all know has racked up incessant headlines since 2008. Indeed, ... -
'Connected Car' super cool, but is it safe?
Imagine it. You're on your way back from a five-hour road trip with the family. While the two kids happily blast each other on the ... -
Your baggage is delayed: notes from 30,000 feet
During U.S. business trips such as the one I had last week, I typically fly United. That's not by choice, of course – often I go out of my ... -
Your baggage is delayed
During U.S. business trips such as the one I had last week, I typically fly United. That's not by choice, of course - often I go out of my way ... -
Hammering out a 'free trait' agreement
Of course, it's not like the distinguished research professor at Carleton University isn't used to giving lectures. After an educational ... -
CEO of the Year 2009: Karen Kinsley, CMHC
But when the president and chief executive officer of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., Karen Kinsley, told me she'd locked in at around 18 per ... -
Are you an e-mail apniac?
"So anyway," I said, "when you reached me via e-mail earlier this week, I thought that -" "Hold on a sec," he said quickly. "Weren't we ... -
It's a dog's life ... in our fair city
We'd already tried a reasonably orthodox solution, with terrible results. But after scouring the city for an answer to our quandary - a ... -
HONG KONG: Landing an eastern beachhead
The Boston-based company, which boasts a major office in Ottawa along with strong presences in the Asian metropolis, San Diego and Hertfordshire ... -
Class-action suit launched against Allen-Vanguard
The London, Ont.-based law firm said in a release that the class action, which also names certain of its current and former officers and ... -
The NCC: Steward or greedy landowner?
But it's especially exhilarating when all those scrumptious layers start bickering with one another. It's pure entertainment, really. ... -
Hub's death signals larger shift
It's a good thing, too, in many respects, for those involved. No doubt many were sick of media outlets such as OBJ pestering them about ...






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