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The Downside of Health Care Job Growth

Harvard Business Review

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Reducing the rate at which health care costs grow, and the proportion of U. health system grew by nearly 75%. Over half of the $2.6

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. The New Ways to Compete. Sponsored by Accenture.

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How Big Should Government Be?

Harvard Business Review

During the first big rise in social spending, from 1880 to 1930, there was actually a positive correlation — probably because early poor-relief measures improved workers' health and productivity. in 2010, government spending's share of GDP in the U.S. isn't really backed up the evidence — at about 42.5% If the U.S.

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A Business-Friendly Climate Agenda for Obama's Second Term

Harvard Business Review

President Obama has some unfinished business to attend to, and taking care of it will require help and support from corporate leaders across the country. After 2010, climate all but disappeared from the national conversation. companies are technology leaders in developing acceptable substitutes. He delivered on the first two.

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There’s a Leadership Vacuum on Climate Change. Business Should Fill It

Harvard Business Review

The Trump administration has proposed cutting the EPA’s budget by over 30%, and the agency’s staff by 15,000 jobs. But many studies have estimated that the reduction in health care costs saves the economy, and thus all companies and citizens within that economy, tens of trillions of dollars. will follow his lead.