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HR Guide to Company Culture: 5 Tangible Leverage Points

LSA Global

An HR Guide to Company Culture and Your Organizational DNA When it comes to people and organizational dynamics, the concept of company culture can seem nebulous and less vital when compared company strategies, systems, people, or finances. The truth is that different companies do things and present themselves differently.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.

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Asset Management – Industry Overview (Part 1 of 4)

Tom Spencer

These asset classes can include public equities/stocks, fixed income/bonds, money markets, commodities, infrastructure, real estate and alternative strategies – including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital. Asset management can be broadly divided into retail and institutional asset managers depending on whose money they handle.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

First, several companies with pension plans understate their pension expense and pension liability because they assume that actuarial estimates of pension liability are smaller than what an outside party, such as an insurance company, would assign to take over that liability, and that financial assets in their pension plans will earn greater future (..)

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When is a Business Prepared for Sale?

Martinka Consulting

One buyer is a fast-moving middle market company driven by information, metrics, KPI’s, etc. Increased costs for medical insurance, unemployment insurance, employee turnover, and more. We’ve got two buyers, two offers, one more overall money, and the other with more guaranteed money early. Conclusion.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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The CMS Five-Star Quality Rating System is Changing. Here’s How to Stay on Top

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is raising the stakes on patient and member experience for health insurance organizations. The agency has structured the star ratings strategy to be consistent with its three-part aim: better care, healthier people and communities, and lower-cost care through improvement. What’s new.

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