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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. In the U.S., Recall how the U.S.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

health care with this venture, set up in partnership with America’s largest not-for-profit hospital network, Ascension. prices, and even at those prices it could be extremely profitable as patient volume picked up. Bottom line: U.S. “For the world to change, America has to change,” Shetty told us. health care.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. Viewed this way, there is a bottom-up solution to the problem of America’s uninsured. America spends $3.3 Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured.