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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. The administration also needs time to work on the reporting requirements that will be part and parcel of making the system work. Can we really do that in this environment?".

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. area health care market has indeed shifted.

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

In addition to receiving traditional training, each participant designs and carries out a 100-day project that targets an important business challenge, such as increasing the firm’s footprint in the health care segment or developing new software to enhance mobile phones (these are real examples).

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Pregnant Workers Have Rights, No Matter What the Supreme Court Says About UPS

Harvard Business Review

United Parcel Service will determine whether employers must accommodate pregnant women in the workplace. When a UPS early morning air driver named Peggy Young became pregnant, her health care provider advised that she not lift more than 20 pounds. In truth, no matter what the high Court decides, U.S.