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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

The Leading Edge of Health Care. National Institutes of Health, but the reverse is less clear; biopharmaceutical companies, too, participate in basic research that advances our understanding of mechanisms of disease and treatment. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

But “reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” as Mark Twain said. With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., A needed a pproach.

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In Defense of Responsible Offshoring and Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

They are key both to cash flow which finances dividends, and to "net income" that drives stock price which, in turn, benefits shareholders (heavily American) — especially older individuals who are either direct investors or who rely on pension funds. Worker Transition at Home.