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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. And several programs stand out as examples of how this can be done.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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The Cure for Self-Inflicted Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Business education Creativity Design' It is not impossible. It is just hard.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

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Unify Your Global Company Through a Common Language

Harvard Business Review

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. Many had been educated in English-speaking institutions. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. What do you do? Hire interpreters?

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Research: The Digitization of Banks Disproportionately Hurts Women Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

As banks rush to digitize their operations , many have found that closing their local branches can help maintain a high return on an otherwise pricy transformation. since 2013 , and shrank by more than 1,700 in 2017 alone. And compared to men, women entrepreneurs are pushed into desperate and extreme types of financing.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.