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Job Hub: Uber Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Estimated to be valued at around $50B as of July 2015, Uber has experienced a rapid (to say the least!) Don’t expect Uber to pick up your travel tab; we’ve heard from many interviewees that they had to pay their own way to the interview. Are you an employer, recruiter, or hiring manager? seven years of growth.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

The main differentiator is that while consumer fitness trackers can assist individuals in keeping in peak physical condition, medical wearables have the ability to detect life threatening diseases, provide pain relief, manage chronic illnesses, and collect a variety of biometric data. Image: Pixabay. Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

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The Truth About How Uber’s App Manages Drivers

Harvard Business

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. Customers act as managers.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

I was using that time to transition into a project management role in media. I got a part-time job in a retail store, and in my downtime I just started a learning a lot of the tools necessary in order to be a producer/project manager in media. People will just take a little bit of time and travel, or something like that.

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

Harvard Business

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015.

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One Hospital’s Experiments in Virtual Health Care

Harvard Business

Virtual Visits: Improving Access and Population Health in Chronic Disease Management. In 2015 we started to engage those clinical departments whose providers saw patients with conditions requiring frequent follow-up visits and infrequent physical exams, and who lived in Massachusetts but had difficulty coming into the office.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

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