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Cracking the Behavior Code

Great Leadership By Dan

Economists argue that things will improve when we get the incentives right. Marketers claim that cajoling in just the right way will get things done. He is the former Chief Scientist of Express Scripts, the nations largest pharmacy benefits management company, and has authored and published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers.

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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). Where has this stuff been hiding?” But we should be.

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The Risks of Health Insurance Company Mergers

Harvard Business Review

The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.” And we’ll have an incentive to pursue those approaches because we’ll reap enough of the rewards.”

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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. These solutions are new to market and some of them may not be included in the standard offerings of your health insurer or third-party administrator.

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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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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

There are real benefits to this real-time business capability: getting to market faster, capturing value quicker, more immediate responsiveness to customer needs. The test engineers think a lot about creating incentives that motivate developers to fix bugs and write effective tests.