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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. In 2016, 50% of the Executive Medical Directors group were women and 29% of the Health Plan Organization’s C-Suite were women.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business Review

We also equip the teams with data-rich dashboards that monitor their patients’ engagement, satisfaction, and, of course, health metrics, while also tracking broader population-level trends in clinical outcomes and avoidable — and often unnecessary or harmful — procedures and hospitalizations. Collaborative behavioral health.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business Review

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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The 7 Steps to Sales Force Transformation

Strategy Driven

Vision : Define a picture of the desired future tailored to the unique needs and specific goals of the organization. Support : Enlist support from other functional areas within the organization, such as marketing, HR, finance and operations, as well as the external support from partners and customers. Consider leaving a comment!

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A Simple Way to Involve Frontline Clinicians in Managing Costs

Harvard Business Review

In 2016 the Scottish National Health Service (NHS Scotland) piloted an approach to value improvement that took both cost and quality into account and turned the management of value into the basic task of the point-of-care manager. Value ceased to be a side initiative or something driven solely by top-level finance and executive leaders.

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