Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

The airline industry is a cautionary tale of what happens when companies emulate new business models without bringing over the associated mental models. From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities. Small and large companies alike are experimenting with these concepts.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Ask any experienced marketing professional about the top moves you can make to accelerate your marketing campaigns at any level of business, and an overwhelming majority will point to the weight that compelling customer testimonials carry. Connect with Sean Gordon on LinkedIn. Be deliberate with this. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Your industry or company could be on the cusp of a disaster and you may not know it. Especially in this job market. That's taking Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's bold prediction (now known as Moore's Law ) that the number of transistors on a chip will double approximately every two years to a far new level. And you may be right.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The company begins with a goal, such as safely carrying 250 passengers nonstop from New York to London in under six hours, and follows a disciplined approach to identify the components and subsystems that meet those requirements. A plane developed that way wouldn’t fly. No doubt, patients are at risk for more than seven harms.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. workers who hold the “dual intent” visa can apply for a green card.

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