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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

The lower reimbursement and need to provide 24/7 coverage that makes a primary-care-based system so appealing to policy makers and others has long been shown to be a source of burnout and challenges in getting medical students to choose careers in primary care. The last thing that this group of providers desires is more responsibility.

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What the Data Says About Women in Management Between 1980 and 2010

Harvard Business

Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. For example, so few computer and information systems managers existed in 1980 that data used here did not record this occupation. And if so, how?

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How Being a Workaholic Differs from Working Long Hours — and Why That Matters for Your Health

Harvard Business

Hanna, a finance director at an international home care retailer, works long hours. We also controlled for a host of factors such as gender, age, education, and family history of cardiovascular disease. Here’s a quick explanation of why: To cope with stress, the body activates several systems (e.g.,

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