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Nine Rules for Employee Engagement

Chart Your Course

Results range from happier customers to higher profits and stock prices, to lower health care costs. This desire has increased in recent years, due to the rapid pace that technology is changing the way businesses work and the skill sets they require. Flexible Benefits and Rewards. Telecommute Option.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Experimentation is vital.

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Better Questions to Ask Your Data Scientists

Harvard Business Review

Research from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising shows that using ads to reduce price sensitivity is typically twice as profitable as trying to increase sales. Cerner , a supplier of health care IT solutions, uses data sets from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to supplement their own data.

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In Defense of Responsible Offshoring and Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

They are key both to cash flow which finances dividends, and to "net income" that drives stock price which, in turn, benefits shareholders (heavily American) — especially older individuals who are either direct investors or who rely on pension funds. Worker Transition at Home.