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Health Care Reforms That Work

Harvard Business Review

Five innovative reforms have been found to help reduce costs without compromising on the quality of health care services: Decentralization of responsibilities : Most dialysis centers today are trying to provide drug management, laboratory services, and vascular surgery management in addition to dialysis service under one roof.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.