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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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Fixing Pharma’s Incentives Problem in the Wake of the U.S. Opioid Crisis

Harvard Business

Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain. And what can we learn from it?

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

2 As questions on how to rein in increasing healthcare costs continue to mount, and politicians focus on passing legislation and targeting the pharmaceutical industry, a possible solution may be wearable health devices. billion by 2020. These devices can also be used to address chronic conditions such as heart disease, asthma, and diabetes.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Household Products. Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. Industries. Financial Services. Marketing & Sales. Research & Development. Manufacturing. Aerospace and Automotive. Industrial Equipment.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

Compensation should be tied to broad-based outcomes and include things such as customer satisfaction and product knowledge, in addition to success at closing deals. Building a career of positive productivity and learning is hard enough in a company that helps you along. If there is a disconnect, that is a red flag.

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The Case Against Pay Transparency

Harvard Business

In most work settings individual performance is not easily observed, in part because our performance is a joint product that reflects both our own effort and that of many others. Employees reduce their productivity when consistently reminded of what they perceive as unfair rewards. But herein lies the challenge.