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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business Review

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. Lehman Brothers toppled.

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Substitute Doctors Are Becoming More Common. What Do We Know About Their Quality of Care?

Harvard Business Review

pneumonia, heart failure, shortness of breath) between 2009 and 2014. A 2017 survey of roughly 900 locum tenens performed by Staffcare, a U.S.-based We compared both clinical outcomes and spending among inpatients treated by locum tenens and non-locum tenens general internal medicine physicians.