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What Health Care Leaders Need to Do to Improve Value for Patients

Harvard Business Review

More and more health care organizations are beginning to track their performance on outcomes – and they’re finding that getting started isn’t easy. So how are today’s health care leaders implementing outcomes measurement in their hospitals and clinics? Leading Change in Health Care.

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What Inexperienced Leaders Get Wrong (Hint: Management)

Harvard Business Review

Not just those under attack for ethical lapses, accounting problems, or excessive compensation – retired college presidents are the latest to join corporate executives in the latter category. Much has been made of the distinction between leadership and management. Too many managers, not enough leaders, the critics say.

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What Happens to Mental Health at Work When Our Devices Know How We Feel?

Harvard Business Review

The cognitive and emotional demands on managers have rarely been more complicated or intense. One recent global research survey of employee assistance programs found that, combined, employee anxiety, stress, and depression accounted for over 80% of all emotional health cases in 2014, compared with 55% in 2012. Transforming Health Care.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

Leading Change in Health Care. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. This Emergency Department-Clinical Engineering Learning Laboratory (ED-CELL) team comprises physicians, nurses, other health professionals, systems engineers, scientists, informaticians, IT personnel, and project managers.

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A Model Stakeholder Strategy from the Garment Industry

Harvard Business Review

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. We have positioned ourselves not just as a productivity-driving force but also as an agent of society by investing in education and health care for our people.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

s Human Development Index and the standard economic measure of per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress. The contrast between the U.N.'s Many wealthy societies have low human-development scores (e.g., But business schools can and should do more.