Remove 2013 Remove Finance Remove Incentives Remove Positioning
article thumbnail

Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

Positive Attitude: The opposite of leader is not follower. Maintain a positive attitude to show that you can help your employees rise above any personal or professional problems or conflicts at work by offering constructive feedback and avoiding harsh or critical reprimands. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

article thumbnail

Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Exchanges could also create incentives for insurers to encourage or require providers to apply research findings from analyses of comparative effectiveness.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Designing a consistently positive, rewarding experience across all those touchpoints takes system-wide thinking and an integrated service-delivery approach.

P&L 9
article thumbnail

Why Small Businesses Aren’t Hiring… and How to Change That

Harvard Business Review

proprietary data shows that the smallest businesses have been growing revenues the fastest: In 2013 alone, micro business revenue on average grew by 2.14% while small business revenue grew by 1.18%. The largest businesses are able to secure financing with relative ease and on strong terms, including historically low interest rates.

article thumbnail

What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” Employee incentives. You and your board are in the position to decide whether that happens or not. I disagree with this priority.

article thumbnail

A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

Finally, after tough negotiations with Republican leaders, the President announced a comprehensive tax package that not only addressed income, capital gains and estate tax rates, but also the AMT, unemployment insurance and many expiring individual and business tax credits and incentives. What’s in the Tax Bill?