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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

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Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: The Top 7

LSA Global

Foundational business sales training should include a primer on business acumen : key business drivers, financial metrics, and industry-specific trends. They must understand how to engage and align with cross-functional teams.

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Ignore the Balance Sheet at Your Own Risk

Martinka Consulting

The president was a very experienced and very good operator but somewhat new to the deal process. He told me something that’s stuck with me when he said how as an operator he was concerned with the profit and loss statement but as a deal person he found an appreciation for the balance sheet and its importance.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Our research found companies with effective long-term planning processes are three times more likely to perform in the top 20% of their industry.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business

See More Videos > See More Videos > All loyalty programs are vulnerable to a blockchain revolution, but the travel industry is perhaps the most at risk. Many industries have experienced disruption, due to technologies that successfully reduced inefficiencies and frictions, often disintermediating established players in the process.

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A New Way to Think About Office Lighting

Harvard Business

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. Third-party ownership models, which separate the ownership of an asset from the service it provides, have transformed other industries for the better. number of copies each month). How It Works.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The news is all good for customers, but it makes planning for the industry players much more difficult.

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