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What Does the Term “Business Casual Attire” Mean?

HR Digest

Instead, we’re talking about the typical uniform worn by the majority of employees in various industries, including law firms, banks, advertising agencies, retail stores, hospitals, schools, real estate companies, restaurants, construction sites, and more. Business Casual Attire Examples. What does business casual look like?

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Study: Customers Really Do Trust Family Businesses More

Harvard Business Review

When Gilbane, a family-owned construction company, hired a design firm for a rebranding, the designers surveyed Gilbane’s clients and came back with an important finding: Do not discount the fact that the firm is a “family-owned” business. Employees in the construction space tend to prefer “family-owned” as well.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

For a sports apparel and equipment maker, for instance, the generic “improve collaboration across different categories” contains less useful direction than “make it easy for us to deliver coordinated head-to-toe apparel and footwear to stores in time for the season.”

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Thirty percent said that growth was more important than anything else.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Setting the growth target.

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Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Harvard Business Review

They are realizing it can no longer solely be the charge of HR executives or even of the CEO and top management — and that they must integrate talent management with the long-term strategic goals of the organization if they are to have any hope of claiming competitive advantage. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Research Shows Which TV Ads Are Likely to Make Multitaskers Buy

Harvard Business Review

To come to these, and other, conclusions, we constructed a massive dataset of television advertising in 2010 ( the year tablet sales skyrocketed ). TV ad expenditures and accounted for most of the e-commerce that year: Apparel, telecom, travel, pizza, and online services and content. billion in U.S.