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How to Be a Great Mentor Without All the Fuss | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

December 10, 2010 at 10:54 am Mary Jo, Well said and great timing. Mary Jo Asmus : December 10, 2010 at 11:06 am Thanks Mike. Dan McCarthy : December 10, 2010 at 11:30 am Mary Jo – This is great! Mary Jo Asmus : December 10, 2010 at 11:47 am Dan, I’m glad it will be helpful! Excellent points.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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The IT Challenge of the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

I should know: my company, Atos, is the worldwide IT partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the lead technology integrator for the London Games. Thus, London 2012 is reusing a lot of the IT operational procedures we implemented for the 2008 Summer and 2010 Winter Games.

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. automobile industry.

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly. The committee recently held a half-day retreat to develop a three-year plan for the program and set strategic priorities for 2016.

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Know Which Strategy Style Is Right for Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

By 2008 it had attracted 33,000 applications; by 2010 that number had risen to more than 550,000. That year it set up a cross-functional committee drawn from IT, sales, marketing, and finance to map out its path to becoming what the company later called "the enablers of global e-commerce." But it didn't need to.