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Do Doctors Get Worse as They Get Older?

Harvard Business

On the other hand, scientific knowledge, technology, and clinical guidelines change so regularly that keeping up with them and incorporating them into clinical practice can be overwhelming. Another explanation may be that physicians are most skilled in the few years after residency training. As the physician workforce in the U.S.

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Before You Make a Tough Decision, Imagine How You’ll Have to Sell It

Harvard Business

Then, in 2005, a dissident journalist named Shi Tao used his Yahoo email account to send a document to Western reporters that described Chinese government restrictions on media coverage of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. Like many other Western companies, Yahoo began building major operations in China.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business

of employment in 2005 to 9.6% This involved information sharing, training, and in some cases cooperative investigations focused on the misclassification problem. With the retraction of employer guidelines amid a business climate that views independent contracting as the default, is this commitment being eroded?