Even with new health-care policies, one thing is clear: health-care costs will continue to rise dramatically. While individuals may get better coverage, businesses will have the same problem they've had for the last four decades. Health care, one of corporate America's largest expenses, is growing at double-digit rates, and nothing done in Washington will change that.But one medium-size company set out to tame the beast of rising health-care costs, employing best practices and cutt...

Heading into 2014, American businesses face an important decision about health care: Opt in or opt out?With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in effect, companies with more than 50 employees will either offer health care benefits or face penalties. And the choice isn't as straightforward as it may sound—in many instances, some companies could save money by paying the fines rather than funding a health care plan. Others would lose money i...

When exploding health care costs threatened Serigraph's solvency, the CEO went outside the box to find a solution. John Torinus Jr. applied innovative, cutting-edge strategies to cut his health care expenses well below the national average while improving his employees' care.Now, across America, leading companies are following Serigraph's example. There is a revolution brewing. A revolution that will dramatically lower health costs nationwide.John Torinus Jr., author of

Even with new health-care policies, it's clear that health-care costs will continue to rise dramatically. While individuals may get better coverage, businesses will have the same problem they've had for the last four decades. Health care, one of corporate America's largest expenses, is growing at double-digit rates, and nothing done in Washington will change that.But one company set out to tame the beast of rising health-care costs. Serigraph, Inc., a Wisconsin-based manufacturer o...

A Strategy course about the structural analysis of industries, competitive strategies,competitor analysis, competitive moves, strategy toward buyers and suppliers, structural analysis within industries and industry evolution competitive strategy within various generic industry environments are discussed, such as fragmented industries, emerging industries, mature industries, declining industries and global industries.

A timely guide to overcoming the retirement challenges we all faceThe Great Recession has placed a wake-up call to America's baby boomers. Many have not saved enough for retirement and have not taken a hard look at how many post-work years they may need to finance.Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security tackles the tough questions about retirement in the new post-crash economy. Page by page, it puts retirement ...

How to win new customers efficiently?You can't chase after every potential customer who moves, along with all of your competitors. You have to think smarter or you will waste a lot of effort.This book will help you win new customers in 3 ways: flooding into near markets, increasing market coverage and presence, and reaching for far markets.Essential reading for busy managers.

Revised and updated to answer the challenges of a rapidly changing business world, the 4th edition of The Ten-Day MBA includes the latest topics and core business concepts taught at America’s top business schools, from corporate ethics and compliance to financial planning and real estate to leadership and negotiation. With more than 400,000 copies sold around the world, this internationally acclaimed guide distills the lessons of the most popular business school courses taught at ...

An updated and revised edition of the essential and enduring bestseller, incorporating the latest theories and topics taught at America's top business schools.In this new, fully revised and completely updated edition of the internationally popular guide, author Steven Silbiger distills the lessons of the best business school courses taught at America's most prestigious and influential universities, including Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the Un...

Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. They're often able to maximize investor value far more successfully than traditional public companies.How do PE firms become such powerhouses? Learn how, in Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use. Bain chairman Orit Gadiesh and partner Hugh MacArthur use the concise, actionable format of a memo to lay out the five disciplines that PE fir...

Never waste a crisis.Some businesses—and some people—will emerge from today’s economic tumult stronger and more dominant than when it started. Others will weaken and fade. It all depends on critical choices they make right now.Geoff Colvin, one of America’s most respected business jour-nalists, says even the scariest turbulence has an upside. The best managers know that conventional thinking won’t help them in tough times. They’re taking smart, practical ste...

The essential guide to making smarter decisions by decoding CEO CommunicationsRecommended reading in Warren Buffet’s 2013 Shareholder LetterInvesting Between the Lines introduces a revolutionary method for evaluating the financial integrity of a company. You don’t need special access to “insider” information or a degree in accounting to figure it out. In fact, the secret is right in front of you—in black and white—in the words of every s...