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Teamwork: Sharing the Blame! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

The historic health care bill that is now on its. Get a whole team to be pattern aware and you have a winning combination that is the standard for the whole company. Related posts: The mystery of Agent Stan Conch…SOLVED! Do you know Agent Stan Conch? More importantly, can you. Are We Too Busy to Be Healthy? Unhappy employees?

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

The Leading Edge of Health Care. National Institutes of Health, but the reverse is less clear; biopharmaceutical companies, too, participate in basic research that advances our understanding of mechanisms of disease and treatment. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies. Experimentation is vital.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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It's Your Country.Lead It!

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For our children's future, America needs to get better by reengineering our shared values and implementing a united ethical purpose. In this presidential and congressional election year, we must all begin to take action on our stake in this country's future. Her scrupulous budgeting of household expenses hasn't alleviated the pinch.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., A needed a pproach.

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A Model Stakeholder Strategy from the Garment Industry

Harvard Business Review

We have positioned ourselves not just as a productivity-driving force but also as an agent of society by investing in education and health care for our people. Increasing income by giving handouts can only be counted as transfers and is unsustainable.