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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. Being sharp means being succinct. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Additionally know what you have to trade. Rehearse your pitch. Google your name periodically.

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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015. So the law has hit a delay, political heat is rising, businesses are in the middle, and many people are still just plain confused about what they have to do.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

Year-on-year price increases for existing therapies have allowed the industry to maintain profitability, but those short-term fixes have come at a heavy cost: decreased public satisfaction with the industry and increased political scrutiny. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.