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Should You Gamble on Your Company's Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business School's mission is to "educate leaders who make a difference in the world." Of course, HBS hopes to educate leaders who make a positive difference in the world, but that's harder to do than it might seem. The problem with the new mission, though, is that it's missing one word: positive.

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The Soft Things that Make Mergers Hard

Harvard Business Review

As Jim Champy says of major organization change, "One of the things I always look for is the appetite for change. Educate leaders about the different pacing needs within their organizations. Is there an appreciation for the need for change? Is there a willingness to take on some of the risk required to do that?".

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Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

We have seen great advances in the diagnosis and treatment of illness, but many of the processes in care delivery haven't changed very much in fifty years - the same patient questions get repeatedly asked, delays exist in getting test results back, real patient education is left up to the patient and the Internet.