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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. We see this in our research at Columbia University and have identified many examples where CEOs benefit their businesses by partnering across sectors with public officials, nonprofit managers, and community members.

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When Selling, Ask Questions, Rank Your Prospects … and Listen!

Emerson Consulting Group

Asking questions is critical to succeeding in selling your product or service or your business in general. They want so much to tell a prospect everything they can possibly think of about their fabulous product or service that they refuse to let their prospect get a word in edgewise. Questions to Ask Yourself.

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Why the World Needs Doctors with These 3 Qualities

Harvard Business

Business discipline: The third key quality of doctorpreneurs is that they pay close attention to finances, capital spending, and management processes because they understand that if their organization is not highly productive, it will not survive and cannot achieve its purpose of serving the greatest number of people.

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Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

Emerson Consulting Group

Pencil manufacturing in the US at the time was extremely competitive, with many pencil “products” lacking the reliably fine-point consistency we are accustomed to today. which transforms business consultants, CEOs, attorneys, finance experts and other business leaders and their companies into published “thought leaders.”

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How the Data That Internet Companies Collect Can Be Used for the Public Good

Harvard Business

Shared (often aggregated) corporate data can be used to create intelligence products such as tools, dashboards, reports, apps, and other technical devices to support public or humanitarian objectives. The practice of using data collaboratives tends to be global and cross-sectoral. How the Exchange of Data Can Help Solve Public Problems.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. But in April, just after U.S.