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Coronavirus: Who Gets a Hospital Bed?

CaseInterview.com

This could result from a shortage of personnel, equipment, medications, or access to transportation to higher levels of care (e.g., If they don’t, we tag them with a black tag indicating the patient is dead or “expectant” (expected to die) and walk away. ambulances). If they start breathing on their own, that’s great.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business

But while these are sensible strategies, few companies outside of the technology industry are achieving their desired returns on the eye-popping price tags of some of these deals, in part because they overvalue flashy technologies. Users in Different Ecosystems. And the company had plenty of motivated talent.

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business

Other failed products either answer a question no one cares about or are the wrong answer to the right question – Google Glass or the Segway personal transporter, for example. After that, you could buy them on eBay – but for 33% more than the original price tag. The mini-notebook device carried a price tag of €299.

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What Amazon’s HQ2 Wish List Signals About the Future of Cities

Harvard Business

The city that lands this historic deal will see its economic and physical landscape transformed, albeit for a hefty price tag in the form of tax breaks. And for good reason: “HQ2,” as it’s being called, would create upwards of 50,000 high-paying jobs and billions of dollars of new investment in whichever city it locates in.

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business

The height of the price tag that workers place on meaning surprised us all. People in our study in service-oriented professions, such as medicine, education and social work, experienced higher levels of workplace meaning than did administrative support and transportation workers. The Dollars (and Sense) of Meaningful Work.

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Nonprofit Professionals - Amateur Managers?

The Nonprofit Consultant

I learned critical thinking skills, I learned written communications skills, and I learned quite a bit about how to avoid some of the mistakes of the Cold War, should I ever happen to be transported back in time into Truman or Eisenhower's cabinets at certain moments in history. But I didn't learn about management. How about yourself?

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What Multinationals Need to Do to Succeed in Africa

Harvard Business

In large part it was SABMiller’s success across the African continent that made it such a growth star and justified the eye-watering price tag for its takeover. From 2007 to 2016, the brewer saw its African sales outside of South Africa climb from $280 million to $1 billion.