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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. Companies are also more interested in hiring people with advanced degrees.

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A Global Online Network Lets Health Professionals Share Expertise

Harvard Business Review

The team launched GHDonline in June 2008 with public communities in tuberculosis-infection control, drug-resistant tuberculosis, adherence and retention, and health information technology. Growing Participation. Health Information & technology Internet Knowledge management' Adapting to Demands.

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The Tricky Economics of Dog Adoption

Harvard Business Review

Whether you believe that logic applies to education or not, it’s useful to think about how to get those with truly good intentions to properly signal that they will be good adopters, and, on the other side of the market, that owners are accurately representing the dogs they are trying to place in good homes.

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Don't Let Your Best-Connected People Become Bottlenecks

Harvard Business Review

Consider the situation faced by a leading provider of outsourcing and information technology consulting services with approximately $1.5 The 5% most central people — despite working to their limits — had in various ways become bottlenecks, unable to fully participate in projects, sales efforts and decisions.

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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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What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Harvard Business Review

These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising. All of their expertise is in the program areas that they fund – poverty, education, etc. And to be honest, we’ve known it.” It’s sales.

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Why Peter Drucker’s Writing Still Feels So Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. His consideration of information technology in light of the history of the printing trade leads to surprising conclusions. For one thing, he was a citizen of the world. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.