Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Eliminating layers of management. One thing that distinguishes the typical nonprofit from a comparably-sized investor-owned hospital is the number of layers of management. PM Images/Getty Images. As the U.S.

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Strategy+Business

JULY 9, 2017

The shift to online shopping and in-store pickup for groceries -- led by Amazon and Walmart, heightened by Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 -- represents an existential threat to many supermarkets and other food sellers. But that does not fully meet the challenge.

Information Technology 64

Information Technology Information Technology Meeting Productivity 64

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Laura Schneider for HBR. House of Representatives voted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare). Subsequently, Republicans in the U.S.

Trends 114

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Earnings also seem to matter less for CEO pay: companies are reducing profits-based cash bonuses and shifting toward stock-based CEO compensation, partly to keep opportunistic managers from cutting back on valuable investments as a way to report higher profits. Facebook’s gross margin of 76% on its 2017 revenues of $46.5

Financial 72

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

At the beginning of 2017 Experian predicted that the health care sector would be the most heavily targeted vertical industry. A March 2017 report from the Identity Theft Resource Center indicated that more than 25% of all data breaches were related to health care. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The good news is that natural disasters themselves, which Munich Re says caused $330 billion in economic losses globally in 2017, provide a template for how to mitigate the growing and catastrophic risk posed by AI. Our growing reliance on so many intelligent, connected devices is opening up the possibility of global-scale shutdowns.

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