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

Harvard Business Review

This provision would have required most companies with the equivalent of 50 or more full-time workers to offer health benefits on January 1, 2014, or pay a fine of at least $2,000 per employee. The administration also needs time to work on the reporting requirements that will be part and parcel of making the system work.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Many companies have figured out how to parcel out small amounts of money to employees cultivating something new. At the storage and software company EMC Corp., The benefits of revealing what’s in your pipeline can be greater than the risks of divulging it to competitors.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75

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