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Better Ways to Communicate Hospital Data to Physicians

Harvard Business Review

We recently conducted an in-depth study at Lumere to gain insight into physicians’ perceptions of clinical variation and the factors influencing their choices of drugs and devices. length of stay, post-operative recovery profile) combined with cost data may be the most effective solution. Dave King/Getty Images.

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

But are Bunge and other like-minded fitness executives really correct to assume that office work is comparable to sports, or that they can positively influence one another? There’s more on the less-than-positive end of things: There is still no peer-reviewed evidence suggesting a correlation between CEO physical fitness and firm value.

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Were OkCupid’s and Facebook’s Experiments Unethical?

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard to imagine a world in which companies didn’t try to influence our emotions. In most companies, you have to get approval from various operational functions, as well as legal and public relations teams, especially if the results are going to be made public. What bothers people is the experimentation.

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