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Surgeon's hands
November 15, 2014
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Stefanos Zenios: What Hospitals Around the World Can Learn From India

How a smart hospital used a simple approach to solve a big problem.
Operations, Information & Technology Health Care

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Outside the emergency unit of Jersey City Medical Center in Jersey City, N.J. | Reuters/Eduardo Munoz
October 27, 2014
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Jeffrey Pfeffer: Why Health Insurance Companies Are Failing

FortuneWriting in Fortune, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer outlines the dismal future of America's health insurance providers.
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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System

Daniel Philip Kessler, R. Glenn Hubbard, John Cogan

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Riders for Health on motorbikes
September 19, 2013
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A Team of Researchers Explores Health Care Delivery in Africa

Can well-managed fleets of vehicles increase health worker productivity?
Operations, Information & Technology Health Care Africa

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Woman holding a CT scan showing her missing left lung
September 18, 2014
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Uzma Khan: How Do Consumers Understand Risk?

A study shows just how poor we are at instinctively understanding probabilities.
Marketing Health Care

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Gates Foundation CEO: Good Intentions Aren't Enough

Sue Desmond-Hellmann shares what she's learned as the leader of the world's largest charitable organization.
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Risk: The Recommended List

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Five Things You Should Know About Risk

From outer space to the boardroom, risk is all around us.
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Stefanos Zenios: What Hospitals Around the World Can Learn From India

How a smart hospital used a simple approach to solve a big problem.
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September 18, 2014
Written

Uzma Khan: How Do Consumers Understand Risk?

A study shows just how poor we are at instinctively understanding probabilities.
Marketing Health Care
May 5, 2014
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Mohsen Bayati: How Decision Software Can Improve Health Care

A scholar shows how data analysis can help lower patients’ risk of hospital readmission.
Operations, Information & Technology Health Care
September 19, 2013
Written

A Team of Researchers Explores Health Care Delivery in Africa

Can well-managed fleets of vehicles increase health worker productivity?
Operations, Information & Technology Health Care Africa
June 7, 2013
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Jeffrey Pfeffer: Companies Emphasize the Environment Over Employees

A professor of organizational behavior argues that “human sustainability” may pay off too.
Organizational Behavior Health Care
June 4, 2013
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Lawrence Wein: Childhood Obesity Screening May Not Be That Useful

A new study explains why.
Operations, Information & Technology Health Care
June 3, 2013
Written

Ian Kazi Shakil: Building a Business from Google Glass

The cofounder of health IT company Augmedix believes in building relationships, seizing the moment, and turning big business on its ear.
Career & Success Entrepreneurship Health Care