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How Health Care Providers Can Help End the Overprescription of Opioids

Harvard Business

By any metric, opioid-related overdoses in the United States have reached epidemic proportions. million Medicare beneficiaries who filled at least two opioid prescriptions in 2011, 34% received prescriptions from two providers, 14% from three providers, and 12% from four or more providers. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. Photo courtesy of Apple.