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Alternative Selection – Total Benefit of Ownership

Strategy Driven

When considering various operations to continue or new initiatives to pursue, there tends to be a singular focus on the revenue generation potential or regulatory compliance necessity of the activity. That's only a small sample of this article.

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Soundtrack to Success: The Role of Music in Enhancing Workplace Productivity

HR Digest

Ed Sheeran, the chart-topping singer-songwriter, appeared on almost two-thirds of the sampled playlists. Consider Licensing Requirements Before implementing music in the workplace, it’s important to ensure compliance with music licensing regulations. Any business or organization that plays or performs music needs a music license.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. Methodology. We surveyed more than 1,000 board members in 59 countries.

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Negotiation Strategies for Doctors — and Hospitals

Harvard Business Review

As such, this is not an overview of what is possible, but a mere sampling. Over the past four decades, social psychologists, behavioral economists, and negotiation theorists have catalogued a wide variety of ways in which information can be communicated more effectively to nudge others towards collaboration and compliance.

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Generation to Generation: How to Save the Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Our research on boards of directors and corporate governance has shed new light on many board practices and reveals the need for improvement in several areas including skills and selection , succession planning , and diversity. We found, alas, that FOB boards trailed behind non-FOB boards on diversity. Director Profiles.

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