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“We Had Gone Back 20 Years.” The Heads of Puerto Rico’s Largest Media Company on Life After Hurricane Maria

Harvard Business

For one of Puerto Rico’s largest companies, Grupo Ferré Rangel , the impact has been enormous. The family-owned business runs Puerto Rico’s largest media company&#8212 (GFR Media) as well as other companies focused on customer engagement (LinkActive) and real estate (Kingbird).

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

Medical device companies are catching on to the financial potential of these devices and are beginning to add medical wearables to their product lines. For example, an insurance company that gains access to a person’s health records could use information about a pre-existing condition to limit the insurance coverage it offers.

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Client Buy-In – Practical Tips for Analysts and Junior Associates

Tom Spencer

It is forged in the heat of boardroom battles; and hammered into form by unyielding company politics. This can be as onerous as inefficient packaging machines, or as simple as company policies prohibiting the use of Google Docs. KPMG Newsroom , 21 May 2015, [link]. This is a skill that cannot be rehearsed. Image: Pexels.

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What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at the New York Times

Harvard Business

During those two years, I got to see and be part of a great, mission-driven company’s effort to grapple with moving into the 21st century, trying — for the first time in its existence, really — to be innovative and find new paths to growth. None of this is an unusual story for big companies.

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