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Build STEM Skills, but Don’t Neglect the Humanities

Harvard Business Review

Instead of just STEM, we should perhaps be promoting STEMMA — raising a new generation that also has greater capacities for managing collective human endeavors and appreciating the arts. To read more posts related to the theme of Claiming Our Humanity–Managing in the Digital Age, visit the Drucker Forum’s blog.

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We Need More Transparency on the Cost of Specialty Drugs

Harvard Business Review

In a July 2014 JAMA article , Troyen Brennan and William Shrank, respectively the chief medical and scientific officers at CVS Caremark, a major pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), estimated that with as many as 3 million eligible HCV patients in the U.S., In one analysis , Gordon D.

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We Need More Transparency on the Cost of Specialty Drugs

Harvard Business Review

In a July 2014 JAMA article , Troyen Brennan and William Shrank, respectively the chief medical and scientific officers at CVS Caremark, a major pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), estimated that with as many as 3 million eligible HCV patients in the U.S., In one analysis , Gordon D.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W. In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

According to an analysis by Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University, in 2014 nearly one-third of new H-1B visas went to 13 of these so-called “outsourcers.” ” (Tata received the most visas, with 5,650, while Amazon, the tech company with the highest number, got 877.).