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

Women on Business

If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Discover the reporters in your area and profession. Other ideas: donate your expertise as an award, speak at the local library or school, and interview local officials to report for newsletters. Tom Peters reports that packaging on a store shelf is judged in.06

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. News & World Report as the nation’s best rehabilitation hospital. Clear roles. A culture of shared values.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? If an organization can’t get things done, nothing else matters – not the smartest strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even game-changing technology. OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?)

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

Be accountable for results : While many funders track service delivery, a 2010 report by the Committee on Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy notes that metrics measuring only output "offer little indication whether social improvement actually is occurring." Early results are encouraging.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the first year, the event was fledgling, but charming. This led to the HR VP brokering a meeting with the CEO and an invitation to make a formal presentation to the Executive Committee. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. If you say we should, let’s do it. Innovation'