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Connect Inventors with the Right Problems

Harvard Business Review

When one of us (Walker) helped developed the idea that became Priceline.com, the challenge was to solve a decades-long problem: how could airplanes and hotels fill their last, otherwise empty and perishable rooms and seats while holding the line on the price and profitability of most bookings? All of this is changing now for the better.

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Research: Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence?

Harvard Business Review

When organizations reward success in one role with a promotion to another, the usual grumbles ensue; the best engineer doesn’t make the best engineering manager, and the best professor doesn’t make the best dean. Both solutions can be implemented as part of the performance evaluation process.

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders. This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead. Continuing Talent Development.

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders. This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead. Continuing Talent Development.

Project 14
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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians. It includes five health system engineers, five administrative staff, and 15 physicians representing multiple specialities as well as Mayo Clinic sites in Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Georgia.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

Stress tests are a specific form of simulation developed by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to allow them to figure out how badly a given financial institution’s portfolio would hold up if there was a broad sell-off across a bunch of asset classes, or a specific kind of shock like what we suffered in 2008.