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The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future

Strategy Driven

My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. Change is innovative. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2016: Houston Community College, 45th. Benchmarking. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Houston Ballet, 60th.

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business Review

It offered a competitive salary and extensive training, and it could point to several minority leaders in management. When I joined the company, my branch sales manager — someone I considered a field office general — was black, as were many of my instructors. representation in non-management professionals.

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A Payment Model That Prevents Unnecessary Medical Treatment

Harvard Business Review

The Center for Orthopedic Research and Education (or CORE Institute ) — a group of musculoskeletal, neurologic, and rehabilitative physicians in Arizona and Michigan that includes orthopedic, spine, and pain-management physicians and a number of other types of clinicians — is pioneering an approach that represents a middle ground.

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It Pays to Become a B Corporation

Harvard Business Review

According to Chris McAllister , vice president for reputation management and public affairs at Nielsen, companies engaged in “sincerely-driven” CSR must work harder to convince consumers of this fact. ” Benchmarking and Operational Cost Savings. This multi-faceted project also helped Cabot win the 2016 U.S.

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Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny

Harvard Business Review

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. They're right.

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How Deloitte Made Learning a Game

Harvard Business Review

"Training is a funny thing," James Sanders, Manager of Innovation at Deloitte Consulting, told me recently. "No billion business by 2016, and 70 percent of Global 2000 businesses will be managing at least one "gamified" application or system by 2014. The technology research firm Gartner , Inc.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc. Financial performance.