Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Welcome to the dawning era of social innovation, in which more people aspire to tackle old problems in new ways with new tools.

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Rogers Health Care Education Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Not long ago, many services such as tax accounting were delivered episodically and in-person, as most health care still is today. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public.

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Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality. The good news is that multiple employers are already innovating in these areas. Chipotle highlights a clear career path for entry-level employees on its website and directs new hires to it on Day 1.

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Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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. For women, the spread 10 years out is 16%.

Organization 8

Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

It grows out of insights in fields like high-performance sports science, cognitive science, and health care. Or maybe we're more miserable in a particular career than we're willing to admit. We can take some guidance from the health-care field. It's an emerging trend. Expert-run communities.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative Wireless Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

Breaking down functional silos is key to everything from encouraging communication to building valuable connections to sparking innovation. The topic turned to a specific piece of upcoming health care legislation. "I But, as we all know, bridging interdepartmental chasms is far easier said than done.

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Company Pharmaceuticals Health Care Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

I keep thinking of the health-care IT professionals I’ve worked with for much of my career and how they must be dreading the long, rough road that lies ahead for them. After years of cutbacks, the latest incarnation of health-care reform is putting intense new financial pressures on hospitals throughout the U.S.

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Tips Health Care Budgeting CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. Is the balance right in your organization?

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Such ecosystems even the playing field for individuals and small firms to participate in technological progress, catalyzing both employment and innovation. The New Science of Human Capital. Essential background.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I no longer operated in my personal sweet spot, where my sense of accomplishment after closing a difficult sale or launching a new product was contingent on my having had a concrete deliverable and the sense that my efforts were integral to its success. He believes that fixed organizational structure impedes innovation.

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Management Career Creativity Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1880 and trained at the Virginia Military Institute, Marshall was a career military man who will forever be remembered for his efforts to promote peace and bring about a strong connection between America and Western Europe. The officers present thought Marshall’s behavior would surely end his career.

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Ryan Learning-by-Doing Career Magazine 220

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard. Its success was achieved by a culture of innovation and the speedy introduction of new products.

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Project Productivity Products Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Many adult health care outcomes are shaped in childhood. Current models of pediatric primary care do little to address these “non-medical” causes and consequently have been largely ineffective in preventing adult disease. Reforming primary care pediatrics therefore has great potential for improving overall U.S.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A recent McKinsey study shows that there really are tasks that only humans can do for the foreseeable future, particularly in areas such as education and health care. We’ve seen it happen already across manufacturing, food service, and retail operations. But while computers can do the rote analysis, even they have limits.

Technology 8

Technology Education Analysis McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The agency, which provides health care to approximately 9 million veterans at over 1,700 locations, had set a top-down goal to increase the percentage of veterans who were seen within 14 days of requesting an appointment. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was in crisis. Could the organization turn itself around?

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. Some would argue — myself among them — that this number would be larger if portable health care existed. And, of course, this affects management's role and how we all manage our careers.

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Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Without these term limits, the congress has no reason to include themselves in the health care system they impose on us. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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Blog Politics Short-term Long-term 415