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How Design Thinking Is Improving Patient-Caregiver Conversations

Harvard Business Review

Addressing patients’ fears is important because fear can make an eye operation difficult or even impossible. A trial group was trained in 2010, and the entire staff is now trained on a yearly basis. On the first day, participants get acquainted with the different patient types. The training takes two days. Insight Center.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

Our organizations created a unique financial arrangement that mirrored a joint venture (basically, an “earn-in” opportunity for RIC to participate in the inpatient income stream), but Silver Cross retained its rehabilitation licensure. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010.

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When More Women Join the Workforce, Wages Rise — Including for Men

Harvard Business Review

women’s participation in the labor market has nearly doubled, from 34% of working age women (age 16 and older) in the labor force in 1950 to almost 57% in 2016. Yet although the female labor force participation rate has been rising steadily in the country, it has not done so evenly across cities. In the U.S.,

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Using the Power of Supply Chains to End Sexual Harassment

Harvard Business Review

” Certified farms then comply with auditors and participate in worker-education programs to “ensure farm workers have the right to work without violence and the opportunity to create a workplace of respect and dignity.” A 2010 study showed that 80% of farm working women report experiencing sexual harassment.

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Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per second — 100 times faster than average speeds at the time. As it turned out, providers blew past that milestone as early as 2016. PM Images/Getty Images.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

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