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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

This will “flatten the curve ” and reduce the chances of overburdening our healthcare systems. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008.

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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. Solutions may be available directly through digital therapeutics companies, payers, or care-delivery systems. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Overcoming Fragmentation in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

We are a nation that cares for our fellow citizens, yet we have failed to create a health care system that fully meets the needs of people in this country. More work is needed to achieve the drastic change in market forces that is necessary to create a sustainable health care system. health care — how health care is paid for.

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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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Rushing Back From Covid-19 Could Be Hugely Dangerous

The Horizons Tracker

Data was sourced from a wide range of peer-reviewed sources, to give them a full picture of the pandemic. The models produce three different approaches to ending the lockdown, and the impact each might have on both the healthcare systems and the economy of a country.

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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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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” But what about peer review?