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

Women on Business

Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. Being sharp means being succinct. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Additionally know what you have to trade. Rehearse your pitch. Google your name periodically.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015.