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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives.

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Sustainable Supply Chains Reduce Environmental Footprint

Tom Spencer

Switching to eco-friendly transportation options, such as electric vehicles and hybrid trucks, helps reduce emissions. Sourcing materials and products locally reduces the distance goods need to travel, thus lowering transportation emissions. This strategy also supports local economies and reduces the risk of supply chain disruptions.

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Startup Experience: A Must for Every Young Professional

Tom Spencer

While my consulting experiences afforded me exposure to diverse industries, the crux of my passion lay within the realm of transportation. Product management at this startup involved spearheading the development of a stand-alone final-mile logistics service, unbundling its end-to-end inventory management.

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business

Establish new rules, norms, and metrics. Ford’s core business of designing, manufacturing, and selling cars and trucks is governed by long-established business rules, behavioral norms, and success metrics. Instead, Ford has had to develop new norms and new competencies to meet its new challenges.

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Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business

Car-rental giant Hertz has worked to develop a “Just in Time” approach to delivering highly relevant offers at the exact moment when the customer is evaluating deals across the channels they prefer, whether it is through call-center agents, counter terminals, handheld devices, or the Hertz web site. Under Armour, Inc.

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The Ultimate Question 2.0 Book Review

Management Consulted

Even as recently as 2006, the concept of measurement, management and their impact on philanthropy was not considered a key tool to business development – that’s why The Ultimate Question 2.0 The Net Promoter Score is a customer loyalty metric originally formulated by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix in 2003.

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Project Management: Leverage Data for Better Cost Control 

PM Alliance

With data on how thought leadership is evolving, your team can partner with providers that have already developed processes to avoid wasteful or redundant activities. This information can be used to develop hiring plans that make the best use of low-cost markets. What’s the latest insight into best practices?

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