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Think SoLoMo or SoCoLoMo – Social Commerce, Local & Mobile – For Digital Success

Modern Servant Leader

Social Executives: 94% said C-suite social media participation enhances a brand image. eCommerce Influence: By 2016, more than half of the dollars spent in US retail will be influenced by the Web. Billion in 2010 to 7.9 Influence on Retail: By 2016, $689 Billion will be influenced by mobile retail. Social Media.

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How Design Thinking Is Improving Patient-Caregiver Conversations

Harvard Business Review

A trial group was trained in 2010, and the entire staff is now trained on a yearly basis. On the first day, participants get acquainted with the different patient types. Then participants go back to their jobs and are invited to apply what they have learned. The training takes two days. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

After studying meetings of various sizes, researchers have concluded that the optimal number of participants is seven or eight — small enough for good discussions, but large enough for a diversity of opinions. Similarly, the company overpaid for several problematic purchases — for example, $9.5 The board has since transformed.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

Our organizations created a unique financial arrangement that mirrored a joint venture (basically, an “earn-in” opportunity for RIC to participate in the inpatient income stream), but Silver Cross retained its rehabilitation licensure. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010.

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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the Seilers surveyed all officers and social services staff. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model. “You can’t claim impact if you only see a kid or family for five minutes once a month,” observed Carol Seiler.

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Brazil's Women Shun the Private Sector

Harvard Business Review

A government job once meant parking one's ambitions at the door — one focus group participant went so far as to say that it "stains resumes." The 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics offer opportunities to work on big public projects that are fast-tracked and high-profile.

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This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Cat Yu for HBR. The Future of I-Corps.