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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated. This provision would have required most companies with the equivalent of 50 or more full-time workers to offer health benefits on January 1, 2014, or pay a fine of at least $2,000 per employee.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,