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A Culture of Excellence: An Interview with Melissa Strait

HR Digest

Melissa Strait: When we founded Inspire in February 2018, our leadership team spent time developing a clear purpose and set of behaviors that could align our organization and our brands.? We are focused on developing an HR technology platform that enables finding, hiring, onboarding and developing the best talent.

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Turnarounds and the Big Play | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Leadership. by John • December 11, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. New vacuum-packing technology drove sales and coffee-roasting advancements cut costs by 15%. Nabob Coffee’s market share accelerated to 25% and national leadership as arch rival Maxwell House worked to catch up.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

However, doing this with blanket eliminations of layers carries a risk: inadvertently pruning away the next generation of leadership talent. To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. Pruning the portfolio of facilities and services. As the U.S.

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How an American Express Executive Drives Growth

Harvard Business Review

Schulman: The global head of human resources at American Express was on the board at Virgin Mobile, where I was CEO. Specifically, he saw that the advent of digital technologies was going to fundamentally alter the way people conduct commerce, pay for things, and manage and move their money. So it is expanding our franchise.

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Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries

Harvard Business Review

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Management and leadership skills.