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3 Things Healthcare Organizations Do Differently When It Comes to Advertising

Strategy Driven

Like other industries, basic marketing principles, such as strategic planning and branding, apply to healthcare marketing. Nevertheless, healthcare marketing needs a different approach as compared to other industries. Healthcare marketing has to be different from traditional marketing. Sensitivity.

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What Marketers Should Know About Personality-Based Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Communicators and marketers can now adopt a personalized approach to their work, ideally one based on behavioral science. But the execution lags behind the science while the claims of some marketers as to what personality marketing can do far exceed it. We believe that includes personality marketing.

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Helping Patients Make Peace with Death

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What would a system to achieve these goals look like in practice? All patients would designate health care proxies.

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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. Experimentation is vital.

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Ineffective Sales Leaders Can Cause Lasting Damage

Harvard Business Review

He had extensive market knowledge and a stellar track record. Achieving goals was everything. He tolerated (and even encouraged) ethically questionable sales practices. Consider two examples. An education technology startup hired a sales leader who came from a large, well-respected firm. He ruled by fear.

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How to get an entry-level human resources job?

HR Digest

Honesty and ethics are among the best character traits an employer looks for. These individuals help clients by following up after leaving a home health care provider. They keep track of appointments, record notes, and coordinate care providers. . Don’t forget to consider your long-term goals. Case Manager

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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.