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Ensuring Boston Ballet Stays Relevant

Harvard Business Review

And so, you have an organization where over 50% of the revenue, roughly, is coming from things like ticket sales, or the school that the Boston Ballet runs, and none of those sources of revenue exist any more, kind of overnight. It’s creating art and putting on performances, and with the pandemic, that was no longer possible.

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Stop Solving Your Team’s Problems for Them

Harvard Business Review

Their order arrived late, the product was damaged, and to top it off, their invoice didn’t reflect the volume discount promised in the quarterly newsletter.

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Why Senior Leaders Should Stop Having So Many One-on-Ones

Harvard Business Review

The VP of sales learned about a new budget shift from the CFO. For example, the VP of engineering learned about a deprioritized product feature from the VP of marketing. The VP of quality learned about a new project to accelerate product delivery from the VP of operations.

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Larry Summers: ‘Smart Businesses Are Going to Maintain Flexibility’

Harvard Business Review

I’d pay a lot of attention to divergences between sentiment measures: business confidence, consumer confidence, and hard data: same store sales, industrial production last month. SUMMERS: I think that right now you would say that there was a real risk of recession, but I think you would say that it was less than 50/50.

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It’s Time to Update How Your Company Talks About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Strategies to move beyond traditional reports and connect emotionally with your stakeholders.

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How To Craft a Strategic Hiring Plan in 2025

AIHR

This includes the hard costs of advertising job openings, paying recruitment agency fees, and the soft costs associated with administration, interviewing candidates, and onboarding new hires. In addition, the current marketing and sales team lacks sufficient expertise to drive growth.

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Employee Promotion: Your 7-Step Guide on the Types & How To Promote

AIHR

A company posts a vacancy for a Regional Sales Manager position. The executive team discreetly chooses a Finance Manager for the role of Finance Director based on their performance and potential, without advertising the role to others in the company.