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Searching for Health Care's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

The Mayo clinic in Minnesota shows that care can be coordinated. Medicare payment policy favors doing more, not doing better. The stimulus bill of 2009 allocated $30 billion for health care IT, and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 allowed significant changes in the way Medicare pays for services.

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). ” and “How much money can we make?” ” and “What else do customers need?”

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Debunking Myths About Highly-Skilled Immigration and the Global Race for Talent

Harvard Business Review

They published papers through big labor think tank Economic Policy Institute that support its arguments against immigration reform and the expansion of H-1B visas for foreign workers. in Rochester for 2010). Places such as Columbus, Ind., where engine manufacturer Cummins is based, and Rochester, Minn.,

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