Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

can now purchase private health insurance in 14 state-based marketplaces (SBMs), along with the federally facilitated marketplace (FFM). For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

The market is filled with self-help books promising to propel one’s sales career to the top. In my view, there are three common pitfalls salespeople must avoid to insure maximum results regardless of where they are in their career. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Self-stagnation. About the Author.

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Sports Open-book Follow-up Career 50

HR Digest

AUGUST 4, 2020

Considering the hassles that are involved while optimizing strategies for your Human Resource Management, it becomes a necessary tool. Here are a few payroll management tools that are highly recommended and value for the HR. . It is the oldest and considered as a well-known system of payroll and HR management platform.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

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Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Your chosen Porsche is delivered to your house with insurance and maintenance as well as unlimited miles and flips to other models included. This dual distribution strategy resonated with both consumers and investors — as Cree’s stock price tripled from 2011 to 2013. market for personal computers. Minimize Pain.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) What did we do?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. bribes and kickbacks). Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. Take Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings. Many customers asked for insurance not on a yearly basis but for very short periods for very specific activities. And only 15% said digital was helping them to create new business models.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Between 2013 and 2015 cyber-crime costs quadrupled, with the reported incidence rate growing exponentially. Such costs are expected to quadruple again by 2019, to in excess of $2 trillion.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Manage and evaluate performance of work-study students and graduate assistants.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The company was an eager user of my “cascading choices” framework for strategy that I have used for decades and written about extensively, most prominently in the 2013 book I wrote, with friend and colleague A.G. And Capabilities and Management Systems act as a reality check on the Where to Play and How to Win choice.

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First-mover Advantage Retail Strategy Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

With job growth lagging and an eager workforce that's unable to find opportunities that match their skill sets , it would be a mistake for hiring managers to lose faith in peoples' ability to learn, adapt, and produce in new roles. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Cisco's Deborah Henken, senior manager with Learning@Cisco.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The marketers of Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test, a product that can tell you if you’re one-week, two-weeks, or three-plus weeks pregnant, asked a couple of D-list celebrities to tweet out their positive tests back in 2013. There is nothing new about this kind of segmenting in the pregnancy test market, however.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

These hurdles aren't unique to financial services — insurance, pharmaceuticals, health care and government all face regulation, to name a few examples. Employees, particularly those in the sales and marketing functions, need to know the rules of the road," Langford says. The risks and penalties are real.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. And it’s with employees’ health in mind that we also offer generous benefits: Our insurance, wellness, and employee-assistance programs are more extensive than those of most health systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. For-profit insurers will write premium contracts that encourage the use of resilient materials and methods. cities to adapt.

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Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. ” But the law of smart vehicles isn’t all reactive.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. While it is easy to categorize business as in line with the free market and progressives as anti-market, the reality is far more nuanced.

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Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J.

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Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Now, management needs focus on enabling and optimizing the connection, communication and collaboration between employees, customers, and partners. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Question 2: Given the first chart, you might expect things like “company mission” or “market leadership” to be on top. According to a 2013 NACE study, 98.1% So whether you sell ads, insurance, food, or routers, building a brand among college grads is about getting your story out. However, this may not be the case.

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Company Brand Media Career 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

However, although their members can rent the (more urbane and green) Zipcar fleet by the hour and pick up their vehicle at a local parking space using a smartphone app, this is still a dedicated fleet, still inventory that the company has to acquire, manage and monetize.

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Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. And that answer was new management — Robert Wood — “a man who was capable of introducing a new entrepreneurial concept.” And what was that?

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Take Google.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Does anyone dispute that 2013 has been the year of the tech company? Of the 39 companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1B by private or public market investors, almost half were started by founders who met at school. Entrepreneurship Managing yourself' LinkedIn has surged over 100%.

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IPO Insurance Entrepreneur Self-aware 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

This newfound optimism could be the usual bright-eyed resolve that comes with a new year, but it more likely resulted from something else: the passing of The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (“the tax bill”) in December. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

They have given their social media staff a clear mission and a great deal of autonomy; the account’s managers chat with customers, offer up front to solve problems, and empathize with frustrated travelers. After all, management exists to transform corporations into more efficient machines. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

For example, if an employee costs $5,000 to insure and a family costs $10,000, the 30% cap on penalties increases from $1,500 to $3,000. ADA and GINA, which prohibit use of genetic and family history information for hiring, firing, or underwriting insurance coverage, would no longer apply to wellness programs. per 1,000.

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Insurance Committee Power Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Its approach was the first to align the key actors in the ecosystem in a way that addressed the critical shortcomings — range, resale value, grid capacity — that undermine the electric car as a mass-market proposition. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market). By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles.

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Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

This anecdote is the opening to The Citizen’s Share , a 2013 book by Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, and Richard Freeman, economists and sociologists at Rutgers and Harvard. For example, if you encourage a company to provide health insurance, it may respond by paying less in salary to keep overall costs unchanged.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives Short-term Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. One is allowing people to purchase insurance even if they have a pre-existing condition.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Incentives Cost 8