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B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

Harvard Business

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. The content is highly prescriptive, guiding customers through the stages of decision making, assessing their readiness to provide wellness benefits, and walking them through benchmarking exercises and even RFP builders.

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business

Using an EEOC database of employment data by race, gender, and job classification, it assesses management diversity with a ratio of minorities’ representation in management to their representation in non-managerial professional levels, a metric that Ascend calls executive parity index (EPI).

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Retail Bank Operational and Digital Leaders Reap the Rewards

BCG

BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?”

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people? A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. We know everything. We don’t need to change.”

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. However, in phase three traditional data gathering and traditional metrics are not sufficient to ensure significantly differentiated value creation.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

While current devices can capture important vital signs and other fitness metrics, their ability to diagnose and treat chronic conditions is currently limited. If a device is unable to collect clinically relevant data then it may not be possible to bill patients for it. 7 These devices include smart home devices and medical wearables.