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Teamwork: Sharing the Blame! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

The historic health care bill that is now on its. Get a whole team to be pattern aware and you have a winning combination that is the standard for the whole company. Related posts: The mystery of Agent Stan Conch…SOLVED! Do you know Agent Stan Conch? More importantly, can you. Are We Too Busy to Be Healthy? Unhappy employees?

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies. It’s not just products. Experimentation is vital.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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A Model Stakeholder Strategy from the Garment Industry

Harvard Business Review

We have positioned ourselves not just as a productivity-driving force but also as an agent of society by investing in education and health care for our people. By competing on products, we respond to the market. By competing on serving customers, we can understand, anticipate, stimulate, and influence market demands.

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It's Your Country.Lead It!

Coaching Tip

For our children's future, America needs to get better by reengineering our shared values and implementing a united ethical purpose. In this presidential and congressional election year, we must all begin to take action on our stake in this country's future. Her scrupulous budgeting of household expenses hasn't alleviated the pinch.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Everyone knows that dentists, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists are all health care professionals. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. What They Claim They Do. Growth strategies.