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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. In 2014, network members have submitted nearly 2,000 eConsults, and the volume is rapidly increasing.

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How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. About half of the firms that accepted this offer adopted the technology in the next six months. The second surprise was an exception to this general rule.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 So during initial rollout from May 2012 through February 2014, we examined 80,000 BHDP surveys in four military-treatment facilities. This combination of clear policy, well-designed technology, and redesigned workflows can come together to enable precision mental healthcare. million to 3.3

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters. With the filing of Alibaba’s registration statement in early May of 2014, the company is set to tap the U.S.