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We like to believe that we have a different perspective on business. We are glad that our clients and partners seem to think so too. Googol is a growth oriented business development team.

We like creating growth. We love to roll up our sleeves and exploit opportunities hands-on. No matter if it entails identifying new concepts for blue chip companies, thoroughly transforming an entrepreneurial business or crafting an innovation system for a mid-size corporation. It's not rocket science. It's talent and hard work.

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News and Thoughts

2010-03-05

Googol at Hasselblad

In Googols artistic interests, part of our “Me, You and Everybody” work, we are now supporting a photographic exhibition opening March 5th at the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg.
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2010-01-29

Jenny Furtenbach joins Googol

Ms Jenny Furtenbach joined the Googol team of business developers January 11th.

Jenny's previous assignment was as managing director of Djurgården Fotboll Försäljnings AB.
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The quarterly earnings dilemma

Company owners, especially in public companies, have a tendency to force managers to act with short-term profits rather than long-term views in mind. This definitely puts a pressure on the ability to grow and create value. Managers are, in their turn, rewarded for maximizing short-term profits rather than optimizing long-term value building. Recently Googol has again been reminded of the need to support the refocus of innovation strategies to achieve a change. We therefore find this article from January 2008 with and by Googolian Joachim Cronquist, worth publishing.
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The predicament public companies face each time it is time to release the quarterly report is immense.

The situation not only to satisfy a screaming short-term market, but also to make sustainable growth and value for the shareholders, poses a major dilemma for the management. Thus “my experience is that most business leaders who are quizzed about the quarterly earnings guidance want to get rid of it. Yet, nobody actually ever seems to do anything to end the practice”, says Joachim Cronquist at Googol.
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