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If Retailers Want to Compete with Amazon, They Should Use Their Tax Savings to Raise Wages

Harvard Business Review

I believe the smartest choice — one that will help them compete against online retailers like Amazon — is to create a better experience for customers and to achieve operational excellence in stores. There were 662 bankruptcy filings in retail, according to bankruptcydata.com, up 30% from 2016.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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A New Way to Become More Open-Minded

Harvard Business Review

Then in 2016, professors from Pepperdine University broke the concept of intellectual humility down into four components and published an assessment to measure them: Having respect for other viewpoints. A few years ago, scientists from various universities started porting this idea into the realm of everyday psychology.

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How Managers Should Respond When Bribes Are Business as Usual

Harvard Business Review

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. “That’s enlightened management.”

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. I have a history of going a little overboard with the “healthy physical habits” – for example, weekly fasting or excessive training for athletic competitions, etc. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders.

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Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

Harvard Business Review

voters and appeal to their hopes, neuroses, and fears, the political consulting firm needed to train its algorithm to predict and map personality traits. political system, including the 2016 U.S. Social and moral concerns. ” To target U.S. That required lots of personal data. Nor is it likely to be the last.

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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known

Harvard Business Review

The Oregon registry, for example, was developed by private philanthropy, but its operations are now funded by the state, with a planned endowment in the works. Medicare accounted for 15% of the federal government’s budget in 2016 and is projected to rise to 17.5% Another comparable effort is the U.S.