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College Grads Are Taking High School Grads’ Jobs and Delivering Better Results

Harvard Business Review

According to the research, three in 10 American companies say they’re hiring college-educated workers for jobs that used to be held by high school grads, a trend that cuts across industries. I think we have to figure out how we lower the cost of education. The managers in your survey were evenly split between these reasons.

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A Global Online Network Lets Health Professionals Share Expertise

Harvard Business Review

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies.

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Don't Let Your Best-Connected People Become Bottlenecks

Harvard Business Review

Well-connected people have enormous power to drive change, as this recent article from Julie Battilana of Harvard Business School and Tiziana Casciaro of the University of Toronto''s Rotman School of Management, makes clear. Management responded by launching a number of connectivity-improving initiatives. The lesson?

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How Mayo Clinic Is Simplifying Prenatal Care for Low-Risk Patients

Harvard Business Review

Together, we engaged in a series of activities aimed at demedicalizing prenatal care for low-risk patients, empowering women to actively engage in steering their care, defining the optimal number of scheduled prenatal care appointments, and utilizing innovative technologies to optimize how we monitored the care provided.

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Why Peter Drucker’s Writing Still Feels So Relevant

Harvard Business Review

In an era of rapid technological and social change, in which new management jargons seem to rise even faster than the disruptive startups that coin them, the career of Peter Drucker is perhaps as instructive as his writings themselves. Drucker’s book, Management Challenges for the 21 st Century , is an example.

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Technology Is Not Threatening Our Humanity — We Are

Harvard Business Review

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Where will new technologies take us?

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Why CIOs Make Great Board Directors

Harvard Business Review

The CIO on the board is often a valuable translator between the board, the internal CIO, and other technology-related functions. In this regard, a CIO director can play a pivotal role in educating other board members and the CEO, giving them the ability to knowledgeably probe on technology matters.

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