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The Skills Doctors and Nurses Need to Be Effective Executives

Harvard Business Review

We are witnessing an unprecedented transformation of the health care industry. Physicians and nurses are being called upon to lead these new health care enterprises — and are assuming a higher level of influence in the business of health care than ever before. It would be a shame if they did.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

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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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

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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The Marketing of a President

Harvard Business Review

Salesforce.com donates one percent of all top line revenues to charity, and makes even its business software seem inspiring by showing how it can make its users more successful in their jobs and careers. For example, Michael Porter describes new approaches to regulation that stipulate measurable social improvements from initiatives.