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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business

This made me more people-focused than process-focused, but it allowed for process improvements in the best way possible, by enabling people to excel.” The festival was founded nearly 50 years ago but hadn’t been held since 2006. ” The results were successful. It was held last August.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

In 2006 Geisinger embarked on a broad care delivery reengineering initiative around cardiac surgery called ProvenCare. This process-improvement methodology includes workflow redesign, error proofing, best-practice implementation, cost bundling, financial risk sharing, and outcomes measurement.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

Companies would like to see process improvements and better infrastructure at the border to reduce costs to import. That would likely lead to closing factories, seeking new sources for inputs, and raising prices to mitigate higher production cuts.