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Europeans Are Increasingly Unhappy With Their Employment Status

The Horizons Tracker

The period from 2004 to 2010 had a specific section on one’s employment characteristics. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this has a negative impact on the wellbeing of temporary workers, who report lower levels of ‘subjective wellbeing’ than their salaried peers.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Health Care Reforms That Work

Harvard Business Review

Third and most importantly, unlike communicable diseases where the incidence rates and overall costs are on the decline, these conditions are posing a heavier burden on health care systems every year. CKD is a condition that affects 1 in 10 Americans over 20 and costs the US health care system almost $100 Billion a year.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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Why Organizations Forget What They Learn from Failures

Harvard Business Review

Then there’s the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, an accident that killed 11 workers, injured 16 others, and caused an oil spill of epic proportions. But court rulings related to the second explosion found that cost cutting had proceeded, despite the safety risks.

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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

Our experience at the Nemours Children’s Health System suggests that value-based care (VBC) is necessary to significantly improve health outcomes and to lower costs for children with chronic illness and complex medical conditions. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Take the Government Leadership Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Then in December of 2010, I received an email that changed my perspective, and my life. As a corporate leader, you have already contributed value by building successful businesses, bringing innovative and high-quality products and services to market, and creating jobs. Those benefits far outweigh the costs. Did it stink?