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Build Your Personal Value Proposition

Harvard Business Review

Executives set value propositions for their products — the target market segments, the benefits they provide, and their prices. Steve is a tall, 54-year-old manufacturing executive. Ethically-challenged places are no fun." We could debate whether those industries pose ethical issues, but that's not the point.

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You Can Charge Women More, but Should You?

Harvard Business Review

For a variety of reasons — cultural, not being aware of cheaper men’s products, brand loyalty, the work necessary to band together to protest higher prices — markets for women’s products carry a higher price than men’s goods. The free market provides wide latitude in setting prices.

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How to Give a Robot a Job Review

Harvard Business Review

Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people. Put bluntly, executives who can’t get their robots to do a better job may lose their own. “Why would you treat them differently?”

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