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10 Factors to Consider When Choosing a Roof Type for Your Construction Projects

Strategy Driven

This also involves choosing the right contractor for your construction projects as they influence your decisions the most. Finances will always be your number one constraint. Costs may include that of raw materials, transportation costs, a roofing contractor, and maintenance costs. Your budget. The length of service.

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What Is the Business of Health Care?

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, the editor of the Harvard Business Review, Theodore Levitt, wrote that the failure of railroads could be explained in part by the myopic view that they were in the railroad business and not the transportation business, which left them vulnerable to competition from cars, trucks, and planes.

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Why Labor Protests in France Won’t Stop Macron’s Reforms

Harvard Business Review

last year, unemployment is slowly decreasing , and public finances are improving faster than anticipated. Moreover, new technologies are helping cushion the effect of transport strikes by allowing people to work from home or share car rides. For a start, despite the discontent in some sectors, the French economy is not doing too badly.

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Health of the Business Landscape in the U.S.

Coaching Tip

Growth patterns are poised to be stronger in 2014 and beyond as the economy becomes more energized, which will in turn help to influence the creation of new jobs.” . Biggest losses: construction (-16% since 2009, a decline of 3,734 establishments); finance and insurance (-9%, decline of 1,143); real estate (-7%, decline of 484).

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business Review

In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory. ” Immelt notes that success requires GE’s willingness to change on many levels—from recruiting, to customer management, to technology. Uncover the core beliefs that motivate these behaviors.

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Building Behavioral Science Capability in Your Company

Harvard Business Review

If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? Each of your behavioral interventions will be a project, and it will need to be managed as such. This role requires having skills in algorithms, machine learning, and programming.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence. But managing expectations about the country’s trajectory is crucial for building an effective strategy. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.