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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. Methodology. billion) in the year to end-March 2016.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). Coordinate with local levels to act on insights ( EY, 2016 ). 2016, July 4).

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Research: A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions

Harvard Business

organizations in 2016 alone, most often through hacking or external theft. Yet our coding of its practices reveals that, as recently as 2016, Citi still was not providing high levels of transparency and control. First, we captured all the relevant URLs pertaining to firms’ privacy policies that were in effect on January 1, 2016.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

GE famously implemented Lean methodologies throughout all of their divisions, helping reduce cycle time and better aligning their work with the customers’ needs, leading to then-CEO Jeff Immelt’s declaration that GE had transformed from a “classic conglomerate… to a 125-year-old startup.” Insight Center.

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Real Male Earnings Below 1973 Level: Median Household Income Improvement Entirely Due to Rising Female Earnings

MishTalk

The Census Bureau report Income and Poverty in the US 2016 shows real household income in the US hit a new record high of $59,039 in 2016 thanks to a methodology change and rising incomes of women. Real, inflation adjusted, earnings of men are below where they were in 1973. more…).

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

In 2016, HubSpot published a research study showing that a majority of Internet users dislike most forms of pop-ups and mobile ads and see online advertisement as intrusive and negatively disruptive. In 2016, Google is reported to have generated an average of $73 per active user via ads. Ending the Google-Facebook Advertising Duopoly.

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The EU Needs to Make Sure Continental Countries Don’t Exit

Harvard Business

The UK Treasury’s 200-page April 2016 report, blandly titled “The Long-Term Economic Impact of EU Membership and the Alternatives,“ seems a useful, well-executed benchmark. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned.