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Better Ways to Communicate Hospital Data to Physicians

Harvard Business Review

This empowers physicians to support the quality and cost goals inherent in a health system’s value-based care model. length of stay, post-operative recovery profile) combined with cost data may be the most effective solution. Consistent, relevant benchmarks will keep physicians focused on organizational goals.

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Better Ways of Thinking About Risks

Harvard Business Review

The set of such methods, tested by peer review of their scientific foundations and success with their application, is actually quite small — and familiar to most business school graduates. It includes decision analysis, game theory, and operations research. job-specific knowledge and skills).

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. These are not the foundations of a proper science that verifies knowledge through experiment and replication of findings in peer-reviewed studies.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

“We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. It is also a matter of having fun and fostering strong bonds between team members to help them reach their goals. The ambition was to double sales and have a 90% employee engagement rate within five years.

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Were OkCupid’s and Facebook’s Experiments Unethical?

Harvard Business Review

Not only are companies unwilling to conduct experiments that are aimed at increasing scientific knowledge, they’re reluctant even to pursue the narrower goal of understanding how customers react to their products. So the studies don’t go through the valuable peer-review process, and the findings don’t see the light of day.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

The company has promoted a culture of health for more than 30 years, with countless peer-reviewed studies showing that employees’ health has improved and company costs have been contained. This, of course, takes time and support. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Asking for help.

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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

When personal motivations trump company goals, it can hinder a company’s ability to get things done. ” People don’t fight for management roles as much when management is not an end goal. If you’ve hired right, your ICs should be your best minds for informing team goals and direction. (As