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Banking on Digital Simplicity

BCG

Despite a tentative financial recovery, the retail-banking industry faces unrelenting, disruptive challenges. That mandate for digital simplicity is the central insight emerging from the research behind this sixth edition of BCG’s annual Global Retail Banking report. Report Tuesday, May 10, 2016.

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Investors Today Prefer Companies with Fewer Physical Assets

Harvard Business

At home, we’re Marie Kondo–ing our way to minimalism, buying experiences rather than things, and using services — Netflix, Spotify, Uber — rather than owning assets such as movies, music, and cars. In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail.

Company 28
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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business

We set out to answer these questions at BetterUp this past year, as a follow-up to our study on loneliness at work. Our Meaning and Purpose at Work report , released today, surveyed the experience of workplace meaning among 2,285 American professionals, across 26 industries and a range of pay levels, company sizes, and demographics.

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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business

In industries like retail, customer service, and hospitality, entry-level turnover alone costs billions of dollars each year, based on voluntary turnover rates and annual replacement costs. The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality.

Survey 29
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Why Top Management Should Listen to Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Activist investors who expect to raise returns by influencing strategic decisions are having a meaningful impact on many industries from consumer-packaged goods to aerospace and defense. And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up. What is our company great at doing?

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. For more on our methods, see the sidebars below.)

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business

The financial services firm USAA prizes its relationships with customers and consistently earns the highest customer loyalty scores in the industry for both its U.S. telecommunications industry found that up to 60% of customers split their services across multiple providers for mobile phone, landline, TV, and internet services.