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Health Benefits in the Workplace at Risk: Employers Try to Absorb the Shock

HR Digest

markets, particularly nurses, is also of great concern. Pharmaceutical companies and researchers insist that costs have to remain high for the production and further research to be viable. Health benefits in the workplace were a focus for employers last year, as a tactic to attract the right talent and improve their retention rates.

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6 Proven Tactics to Design an Effective Executive Healthcare Resume

Strategy Driven

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement

Engaging Leader

Provisions of employer-sponsored health care coverage that influence how health care services and pharmaceuticals are selected, purchased, and used. Engagement strategies and tactics to influence attitudes, behaviors, and habits regarding health consumerism, plan design, and resources and coaching. Benefit Plan Design.

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It’s Time to Rein in Exorbitant Pharmaceutical Prices

Harvard Business Review

As the ire over high prescription drug prices in the United States escalates , it’s easy to blame pharmaceutical companies. But pharmaceutical companies aren’t to blame. In fact, Congress has explicitly prohibited Medicare from negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. doesn’t.

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

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8 Ways Brands Can Fight Counterfeits in China

Harvard Business Review

But China also has a huge domestic market for fake goods: many consumers who buy counterfeits do so deliberately, because they want to pay a lower price for goods that look expensive. Do not wait until you actually enter the Chinese market. It takes counterfeiters a month to reverse engineer a genuine product and bring it to market.

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Cultural Stereotypes May Make You a Less Ethical Negotiator

Harvard Business Review

and China, conducted with coauthor Chao Wang, we looked at how likely people were to use unethical or ethically questionable tactics, like telling lies or offering bribes, depending on who they were negotiating with. A very likely reason is that people rely on national stereotypes when they decide on their possible negotiation tactics.

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