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Companies for Social Good

Women on Business

million to two Haitian providers of mobile banking services. reported that IBM, Motorola, Microsoft, Cisco, and Verizon are partnering with five Chicago High Schools to offer career training for students. It is possible for companies to care and have strong ROI. We can look around us, see needs and look for ways to meet them.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

But you should pick a longer time horizon for calculating ROI on your leadership choices. There’s a lot to admire, in our opinion, like the way he shook up the Vatican Bank. Fortunately, she spots a rickety old raft on the bank, off in the brush. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest.

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Morning Advantage: The Right Way to Get Fired

Harvard Business Review

The key: keeping what the authors call an "assignment" mentality, in which each job is "a stepping-stone, a temporary career-building project.". THE EVER-PRESENT ROI QUESTION. If so, the Supreme Court's approval of the Affordable Care Act may have some serious implications for your career. The Return of the McMansion?

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Technological Know-How Is a Job Requirement

Harvard Business Review

Even the big banks are getting social. Know the ROI: As the pace of technology innovation increases, the savvy professional will curate and invest in the platforms that matter. Even internal collaboration tools, such as Basecamp, salesforce, and Sharepoint, should be subject to detailed business case and ROI analyses.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. What more proof does one need?

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Why Can’t We Stop Working?

Harvard Business Review

As Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen described in his mega-bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? (with Karen Dillon and James Allworth), the ROI of work is immediately apparent. For many top performers, the idea of dialing back on work is also disturbing because they fear it will torpedo their career.