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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). When organizations offer such perks in the face of adverse situations, employees can begin to distrust leadership. A., & Latham, G.

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The U.S. Needs Tax Reform, Not Tax Cuts

Harvard Business

presidential administration and congressional leadership have spent months talking about tax reform. Getting tax reform done requires strong political leadership, significant input from government staffers with technical expertise, and development of a public consensus of the need for change. The current U.S.

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The End-of-Quarter Sales Rush Costs Companies Money

Harvard Business

companies over nine consecutive quarters (Q1 2014 through Q1 2016). Have your executive leadership send the prospect a thoughtful gift, along with a handwritten note. InsideSales Labs, a division of our company, InsideSales.com, recently conducted research analysis on 9.8 million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters.

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