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How a Public-Private Partnership Is Saving Lives

Harvard Business Review

Now in its second year , the initiative’s goal is to create a world where no woman dies from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. These small, entrepreneurial businesses have vast but unrealized potential to deliver high quality, affordable, and comprehensive maternal health services. Pursue scientific innovation.

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How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

Harvard Business Review

The traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model is widely acknowledged to be a major driver of escalating health care costs. Harvard Pilgrim agreed to join the effort because it recognized that traditional payment models were unlikely to help control rising health care costs. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals. Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Human Resource Management.

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Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty

Eric Jacobson

Monday, August 30, 2010 Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty A 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management shows that job security is what matters most to employees. The unstable economy, coupled with rising health care costs, make employer offered benefits more important than ever.

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