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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business

Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track. Extrapolate what implications these new core beliefs would have on strategy, capital allocation and key metrics.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

In March of 2016 we expanded the refund program system-wide to include all patients and all forms of patient individual financial responsibility (copayment, coinsurance, and deductible). At the center of our program lies a “no questions asked” refund policy for patients’ financial responsibility.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). Research has linked organizational culture to employee morale, commitment, health, and productivity (Schein & Schein, 2016).

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A Simple Way to Involve Frontline Clinicians in Managing Costs

Harvard Business

To date, only small steps have been taken at most health care systems (for example, clarifying the costs of specific tests during the test-ordering process), and new clinical analytics systems that offer better insights into costs and efficiency often aren’t integrated into day-to-day clinical care. The visual management board.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.