Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Comparisons with Steve Jobs are not off the mark. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance Elon Musk is one of the most successful and important entrepreneurs in the world. Vance has written a fair portrait of Musk so far. Best Leadership Books of 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

In no particular order, here are six social-digital trends to watch in 2013: The Content Economy Content may become your company's most valuable asset in 2013. In 2013, content will not only be king, but queen, prince and jester, too. So what can we potentially expect to see next year? Now it has accomplices.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Our system’s comparison capabilities will allow leaders to assess asset performance against similar utilities, peers within a geographic or interconnection grid region, and across the industry as a whole.”. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 59

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

And, according to information about reference checking in a report by Chequed.com , reference checking is most useful when it is automated and based on an assessment that verifies job-relevant criteria and assigns scores for candidate comparison purposes. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Quality Pre-Employment Screening Talent Management Reference 68

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2013

It makes pretty good, average, satisfactory customer service look plain vanilla by comparison. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Internet servers have become a haven for colorful ads with video streaming at you while you try to concentrate on reading your e-mails. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2013

If you have 500 business connections on LinkedIn, it pales in comparison to who has recommended and endorsed you. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. COMMENTS, RATINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS, AND ENDORSEMENTS MATTER MORE THAN NUMBERS: Especially in the business world. Recommendations and endorsements are proof.

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Media How To Brand Customer Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2013

If all of this seems like hard work, it pales by comparison to the work you’ll have to do if you’re unprepared after the fact. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Post them where anyone can view them. Your blog, YouTube channel, Facebook business page and weekly e-zine are a great start.

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CRM Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Books 59

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 6, 2022

This includes significant discrepancies in job offers, interview offers, and pay in comparison to their heterosexual peers. The study was linked to the health of the economy and took place in Greece during the two major economic recessions experienced in 2013/14 and 2018/19. The figure for 2013/14 was 5.7%, however, and lept to 7.1%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

It depends on which other companies are included in your comparison. But applying this benchmark effectively requires choosing a comparison group, and there are two challenges that inevitably crop up: what we call the “microscope” and “telescope” problems.

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Company Comparison Benchmarking Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Sometimes it’s useful to ask non-experts what they think, as we did with the movie comparisons, and sometimes it’s best to aggregate experts’ opinions.

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Discounted Cash Flow Net Present Value Comparison Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

For example, in 2013 Time predicted Millennials would “save us all” because they are “more accepting of differences…in everyone.” The researchers found that male students systematically overestimated the knowledge of the men in their classes in comparison with the women.

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Class Survey Comparison Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

October 2013) The Dark Side of Generic Drugs Dirty Medicine Fortune Generic drugs can be inexpensive and effective alternatives to their branded counterparts. February 2013) By the People, Not For the People Maximizing Shareholder Value: The Goal That Changed Corporate America The Washington Post In 1963, IBM CEO Thomas J.

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Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

At the end of 2013, we randomly allocated the captains to three treatment groups and one control group, and in January 2014, all captains were told that their flight and fuel behavior would be monitored for the next eight months. These interventions were sent to the home address of each captain in the middle of every month for eight months.

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Hawthorne Effect Efficiency Metrics Incentives 8

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2022

The researchers hypothesized that poorer people stand to lose more via this comparison, not least as relative poverty measures highlight the relative lack of wealth people have compared to those around them. Making us happy. In other words, did knowledge of their position in the income distribution affect their wellbeing?

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Policies Learning-by-Doing Analysis Comparison 120

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. When a unique brand personality manifests itself in a unique customer experience, it enables a brand to rise above competitive comparison. How – personality.

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Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 4, 2020

The researchers hypothesized that poorer people stand to lose more via this comparison, not least as relative poverty measures highlight the relative lack of wealth people have compared to those around them. In other words, did knowledge of their position in the income distribution affect their wellbeing?

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Policies Consensus Analysis Comparison 91

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections , the current proposed fiscal measures, if implemented, would automatically slash the federal budget deficit by $503 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. China is one of the world's most shrewd investors.

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GDP Class Budgeting Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

In 2013, BusinessWeek quoted Google X director Astro Teller as saying, “If there’s an enormous problem with the world, and we can convince ourselves that over some long but not unreasonable period of time we can make that problem go away, then we don’t need a business plan.” The comparison to the PC is telling.

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Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

In 2013, about 96% of eligible heart attack Medicare patients received this basic medication, which means 5,761 patients admitted for heart attack did not. In comparison, improving patient-experience scores collected through the HCAHPS survey presents tougher problems for hospital administrators. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Survey Health Care Process Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

For this comparison, we used a scaled score of private equity investment funds that were invested into digital ecosystems in that particular year. Only 19.2% of its population has internet access (at home or over a wireless device); other estimates, such as that from the World Bank , suggest that the number may be even lower, 15.1%

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Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

As Diane Mulcahy explained in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article : ”Angel investors — affluent individuals who invest smaller amounts of capital at an earlier stage than VCs do — fund more than 16 times as many companies as VCs do,” she wrote, “and their share is growing.” Steven Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

will not be legalized until 2013). Sure, this amount pales in comparison to the $282 billion that U.S. More than 80% of campaigns in this category have raised more than $25,000. banks lent (without real estate as collateral) to small businesses in 2011, according to the FDIC.

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Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

For example, Tesla did away with car dealers and moved customer interactions to an engaging web platform that contains all the information a prospective buyer would need, like car performance data and market comparisons. It makes the process of buying a car and customizing it simple.

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Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. Rollout in late 2013 was rocky for the federal exchange (and for some state exchanges when they first launched). The average credit was $270 per month. Burwell, the U.S.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013.

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Policies Uncertainty Long-term Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Wall Street’s initial enthusiasm over the former Apple executive’s strategy propelled Penney’s stock price to close to $43 (2/12) and then, in great part due to the failure of this new pricing strategy, shares fell to close to $16 by the time of Mr. Johnson’s departure in April 2013. What’s interesting is that Penney’s prices were indeed low.

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Price Discount Retail Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

I’d love to say it’s simple to get started, but if you use the version of Outlook that I use — Outlook 2013 — you’ll need to navigate a rabbit’s warren of clicks and commands. But these grievances pale in comparison to the upside. It’s worth it.

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Bottom-up Comparison Document Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

By providing software and counseling, the exchanges will help consumers make informed comparisons among these offerings. in the September 26, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). By design, the exchanges will intensify competition by requiring insurers to offer the full range of plans to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Likewise, Nigeria is the powerhouse among the MINT nations while Mexico’s performance may make investors question the rationale for its inclusion.

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Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

More and more, I hear different twists of the same question from clients: Can emotion still influence buying behavior in world where the mobile internet, with real-time access to product reviews and price comparisons, is training consumers to shop purely on rational facts? On the surface, it looks like rational benefits are winning.

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Price Brand Retail Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Compare that to the recent rise of an impromptu city near Allahabad in India: In the week after January 14, 2013, the first day of the Maha Kumbh Mela festival — during which Hindus gather for a sacred bath at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers — around 10 million people had gathered there.

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Long-term Engineering Comparison Cooper 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

decline on the back of a flat 2013 and +0.7% To make the comparison you need to convert the numerator from a physical measure to a financial one — conventionally the dollar value added (essentially a product’s selling price less purchased inputs), which is also how economists measure a country’s Gross Domestic Product.

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Productivity Products Price Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The survey notes for comparison purposes, “workers in the general population report that work is stressful 30% of the time.” ” And yet, for decades, teachers have endured.

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Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

With the advent of the Internet, businesses are learning that the influence of what you say about yourself in ads or even on social media simply pales in comparison to what customers say about you. Tosi on April 1, 2013. When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women--Workbook Edition--Paperback $13.41 .

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Advertising eBook Career Comparison 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

But marketing spend on mobile pales in comparison to time spent there by consumers. While many of these strategies apply both within and outside the consumer packaged goods industry, there is no secret sauce and all marketers should ask themselves what their unique mobile framework should be in 2013, and beyond.

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Strategy Advertising First-mover Advantage ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

But in comparison with Ford, which has found success with its Fusion, and GM, which recently came out from under government ownership and just named its first female CEO, Chrysler''s story is a bit rockier (albeit no less discouraging and inspiring in equal parts).

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