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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Or so he thought, until one interaction changed the trajectory of his career. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work.

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How Lilly Is Getting More Women into Leadership Positions

Harvard Business Review

Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. The Future of Health Care. At Lilly, we have tackled this problem head-on.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. The Future of Health Care. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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Decades Ago, Pilots Learned to “Fly by Instruments.” Doctors Need to Do the Same

Harvard Business Review

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business Review

Launched in 2015, Generation works in five countries (India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and the United States). It has trained and placed 11,000 graduates into entry-level jobs in four sectors: health care, tech, retail/sales, and skilled trades. and sixfold in India.

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S.

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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business Review

The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality. Our research indicated that young people are more than twice as likely to stay at their job for more than a year if they see their job as a career or a stepping stone to a career.

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