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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts).

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

While financial incentive programs are popular, they may not achieve long-term behavior change; instead, they may lead to resentment and even rebellion among workers. This is because many traditional incentive programs are grounded on the assumption that people will behave in certain rational ways if paid to do so. Asking for help.

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Why the Future of Social Science Is with Private Companies

Harvard Business Review

The Reproducibility Project found it could substantively replicate the results of fewer than 40% of 100 high-profile experiments published in peer-reviewed journals. The incentives are such that research academics might be tempted to overstate outcomes in ways post-industrial researchers are not.

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Workplace Wellness Programs Could Be Putting Your Health Data at Risk

Harvard Business Review

The workplace wellness program industry in the U.S. The majority of these firms also offered some financial incentive, such as the reduction of insurance premiums, for employees to participate. Although the workplace wellness program is a largely unregulated industry, employers should abide by voluntary ethical frameworks.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Digital therapeutics are being increasingly validated in clinical trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals and are available or are being developed for most chronic diseases. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Cost structure.

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The Risks of Health Insurance Company Mergers

Harvard Business Review

But if history is any guide , mergers in the insurance industry should give consumers (indeed, all purchasers of insurance) cause for concern. And we’ll have an incentive to pursue those approaches because we’ll reap enough of the rewards.” But has the landscape changed since the Affordable Care Act was passed?

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. Lead by example.