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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business Review

Rather, executives make decisions about how to organize work, how to reward individuals for their labor, and where the boundaries of their firm should be. In aggregate, these decisions play an important role in determining how much each of us gets paid.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business Review

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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