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Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Blue Cross wrote that TheraMatrix’s operations were “competitive and damaging not only to BCBSM’s financial interests, but also to its business relationships.&# Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. The program delivered $1.6

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. “Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Often, the people “in the trenches” (retail floor clerks, assembly line workers) have valuable insights into how operations can be improved.

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF).

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

It’s best summed up by the phrase “policy and politics” which I’ve adapted as “ ideas and influence ” for its application to business. Given how much stuff was coming at us…we probably spent much more time trying to get the policy right than trying to get the politics right. and public opinion.”

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. Under Rossotti's guidance, the IRS reorganized from a geographic structure to four new customer-oriented operating divisions.