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White Americans’ Mortality Rates Are Rising. Something Similar Happened in Russia from 1965 to 2005

Harvard Business Review

From 1965 to 2005 the mortality rates for nonelderly Russian men and women rose by an average of 1.5% From 1988 to 2005 the winding down of the anti-alcohol campaign coincided with the Soviet Union’s collapse and Russia’s fraught transition to capitalism. and 0.9%, respectively, per year.

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In Their Time: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Mayo and Nitin Nohria Harvard Business Press (2005) How great business leaders “seized the zeitgeist of their times&# I recently re-read Paths to Power, co-authored by Anthony Mayo and Nitin Nohria with Laura G. In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders Of The Twentieth Century Anthony J.

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Adaptation of the 14 Points to Medical Service

Deming Institute

Restructure training. Deming on Innovation – The Public Sector and Deming (2006) – Application of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Healthcare – Deming’s Ideas at Markey’s Audio Visual (2005) – Using Deming’s Ideas in Software Development. Develop the concept of tutors.

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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. Its 2002 restructuring offered little incremental benefit while adding cost and complexity.

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The Vioxx Recall Tested Our Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Should we restructure the organization to lower costs and at least partially offset the loss of revenue? We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs. We viewed restructuring as a last resort. We decided against restructuring and reductions in research expenditures. billion in revenues.

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How a Turkish Bank Became the Employer of Choice

Harvard Business Review

In the next few years, in the wake of a restructuring of Turkish monetary policy, the sector revived. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. Group merged its three banks (Körfez, Osmanl?, and Garanti) under the Garanti brand.

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The Reason Smart People Sometimes Struggle with “Aha” Moments

Harvard Business Review

This led them to theorize that high working memory capacity might be especially detrimental to specific aspects of solving insight problems (such as restructuring them). 2005), moderate alcohol intoxication (Jarosz et al., How counterintuitive is this?