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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Business Success Checklist.

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Even a 14-Cent Food Tax Could Lead to Healthier Choices

Harvard Business Review

Estimates of the annual medical costs of obesity range from $147–$210 billion , approximately 40% of which is financed by Medicare and Medicaid. The core issue in the debate over taxation , however, is whether consumers will actually change their behavior in response to price incentives.

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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business Review

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations. Both the U.K.

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Why the U.S. Needs Wage Insurance

Harvard Business Review

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. That’s where wage insurance comes in. The key feature is that eligible workers receive payments only if they obtain a new job.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business Review

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images. To many at the time, we were fools.