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HP Headed to Hotel California?

Women on Business

It isn’t entirely fair to heap all of the blame onto the CEO’s; there was another broken system at play, the Board of Directors. It has all the bells and whistles; its wireless, Bluetooth compatible and an all in one (fax, scanner, and printer) machine. HP Has Historically Had an Ineffective Board. Take for example my LaserJet printer.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Former Managing Director and Partner, Goldman Sachs.

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What Health Care Can Learn from the Transformation of Financial Services

Harvard Business Review

healthcare system is undergoing a disruptive transformation as it shifts toward a value-based model that makes providers more accountable to their patients and payors. When people sign up for Omada’s offering, they receive a wireless, digital bathroom scale, pedometer, resistance band, and tape measure. Leverage big data.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Machinery, seeds and irrigation systems will likely witness a surge in demand. billion in 1997 to U.S. billion a decade later.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. This combination provides scale, scope, and cost economies, which allow Ilum to tailor its offering for each individual hospital. It’s not just products.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

The lower reimbursement and need to provide 24/7 coverage that makes a primary-care-based system so appealing to policy makers and others has long been shown to be a source of burnout and challenges in getting medical students to choose careers in primary care. The last thing that this group of providers desires is more responsibility.