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Virgin Atlantic Tested 3 Ways to Change Employee Behavior

Harvard Business Review

So we partnered with Virgin Atlantic Airways on a field experiment to understand how the behavior of employees—in this case, airline captains—influences fuel efficiency, and how low-cost company interventions can influence their behavior. This was the targets group. Importantly, however, captains in this group reported 6.5%

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How to Tell Your Boss That You’re Not Engaged at Work

Harvard Business Review

” He noticed that organizations tended to overlook the influence that everyday experiences have on people’s work motivation, focusing instead on their talents, skills, and expertise. Meanwhile, lower engagement has been linked to a range of problematic outcomes, such as increased turnover, absenteeism, and stress.

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Technology Is Helping Shape the Future of Health Care - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELL AND INTEL®

Harvard Business Review

To truly influence positive behavior changes, health goals must fit meaningfully into patients’ everyday lives. Chronic illnesses affect businesses through absenteeism and retention problems, and businesses are uniquely positioned to promote healthy lifestyles for workers and their families. Businesses.

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The Other Women's Movement: Factory Workers in the Developing World

Harvard Business Review

We know they are risk-takers, and they''re also influencers. Compensation and benefits that allow them to excel at work and reap maximum benefits, such as health care and childcare, and access to financial incentive programs like pensions. Strong legal protections at work that prevent harassment and discrimination.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive.

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Who Has the Power to Cut Drug Prices? Employers.

Harvard Business Review

Lots of other actors in purchasing, distribution, and brokerage have greater incentives to keep prices high than to lower prices or choose drugs that reduce longer-term medical and business costs, like absenteeism. Competing Incentives. Insight Center. Leading Change in Health Care. Sponsored by Optum.

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