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Social Media Platforms Can Be Built Around Quality, Not Scale

Harvard Business

In the traditional media industry, some outlets differentiate themselves through quality, but social media hasn’t gotten there yet — there is no “ New York Times of social media.” Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.”

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Purchasing Managers Have a Lead Role to Play in Cyber Defense

Harvard Business

Consider the 2014 attack on Target, which caused an estimated $162 million in damages. The lesson: Instead of regulating suppliers individually, supply managers should collaborate with their counterparts at competitors to generate industry-level security standards. The supplier was a small, privately held HVAC company called Fazio.

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Uber Shows How Not to Apply Behavioral Economics

Harvard Business

Checklists describe several standard critical processes of care that many operating rooms typically implement from memory. In a related paper published in 2013 , Alexander Arriaga and colleagues had 17 operating-room teams participate in 106 simulated surgical-crisis scenarios. following the introduction of checklists. The implication?

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

in business, clearly have a love for aviation and were a professional in the aviation industry from 2006 to 2010. So I’ve just spent some time sending in applications to Georgia Tech for Fall 2014. So I pushed that back to fall 2014 and put in an application at Georgia Tech because all the firms I’m interested in recruit out of there.

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Seth's Blog: Measuring without measuring

Seth Godin Blog

Death and Taxes, 2014. Death and Taxes, 2014. Seths most personal book, a look at the end of the industrial economy and what happens next. As an organization grows and industrializes, it's tempting to simplify things for the troops. "Oh, thats just a hack someone put together.". The sophisticates. Colors or numbers?

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. Related Video. Go it alone.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. The Helix (Healthcare Innovation Exchange) Centre opened in 2014 to respond to increasing pressures on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Innovation Centers.