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How Covid Affected Finnish Small Businesses

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers highlight the particular impact on businesses in the travel and hospitality sectors, who have all suffered due to the lockdown measures. By contrast, firms operating in areas such as online retail, pharmaceuticals, and information and communications technology, have all thrived. Face-to-face interactions.

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California’s Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5) Threatens to Rain on the Gig Economy Parade

HR Digest

Officially known as Dynamex Operations West, Inc. A janitor could work under a contract with a cleaning company if the company were primarily in the business of selling pharmaceuticals. The bill, which Governor Gavin Newson signed into law September 18, codifies on the 2018 Dynamex decision by the State Supreme Court.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

For example, restaurants and hotels often have difficulty predicting demand for their services, because many factors influence whether, when, and where people eat out or travel. Finally, industries in the upper-right quadrant — such as software, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment — face high uncertainty in both demand and technology.

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Bologna Shows How a Business Cluster Can Stay Vibrant for Centuries

Harvard Business Review

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. Firms in the cluster design, manufacture, and assemble packaging machinery for a wide range of products, such as baked goods, confectionery, beverages, tea, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.

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A New Way to Network Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). Participants select a date — or dates — when they are free for lunch and choose one of the company cafeterias they're willing to travel to. But, as we all know, bridging interdepartmental chasms is far easier said than done.

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How Digital Health Care Can Help Prevent Chronic Diseases Like Diabetes

Harvard Business Review

One of the barriers to getting prediabetics to participate in these in-person programs is the time and expense required to travel to and attend them. How leading providers are delivering value for patients.