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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. But some of the businesses that would have been impacted by the employer mandate — in sectors like retail and food service — didn''t appear to be ready to comply with the law.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

This annual pool of resources and money is parceled out to the various initiatives in the innovation portfolio as those projects evolve and grow in importance over time. billion in 2010 to $4.9 This is a collection of budgets to fund both the projects in the innovation portfolio and the new initiatives for the core business.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.”

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