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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

It could involve investing in new product development, exploring new market segments, or adopting innovative marketing strategies. Ethical and responsible business conduct can foster trust with customers and partners, enhancing the business’s reputation and long-term success.

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Why Your Customer Loyalty Program Isn’t Working

Harvard Business Review

So serious customer-centric organizations and innovative marketers are decreasingly asking, “How do we make our customers more loyal?” Walmart says it wants to offer everyday low prices to everybody. Loyalty here is as much about ethics as it is business.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

Its software “learned” how to think by processing vast quantities of data. In the coming year, we will also begin questioning the ethics of how algorithms can be used, and we’ll scrutinize the tendency of some algorithms to go awry. Innovation Internet'

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