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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

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Do You Know Who Holds Your Office Together?

Harvard Business Review

There’s a reason law firms and advertising agencies still take clients out to the ball game, theater, or even to Las Vegas. Who schedules them, orders the food, and tidies up afterward? Social capital also counts. What if C-suite executives valued caring for co-workers as much as clients?

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The Big Goal Behind All that Customer Data

Harvard Business Review

Big Data is working hard to get into the minds of customers and uncover accurate information about how the customer really feels, thinks and responds to products, services, advertising and brands. The most forward thinking companies are adopting some form of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) to assess the value of customers to their bottom lines.

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