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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

They’ve set up a Covid-19 platform to share information with and among research institutes to develop better testing kits, drugs, and a vaccine. A month after the outbreak started, 164 scientific papers were already available on PubMed with many more papers undergoing peer review.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. Continuous integration and automated testing is important for all modern, large scale software development. Google’s operation stands out for its scale. HubSpot’s Small Development Teams and “Feature Gates”.

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Better Ways to Communicate Hospital Data to Physicians

Harvard Business Review

While some organizations have made great strides in developing robust mechanisms for sharing data, many do little beyond circulating the most basic data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ patient-satisfaction survey (the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or HCAHPS).

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. These are not the foundations of a proper science that verifies knowledge through experiment and replication of findings in peer-reviewed studies. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

To understand how the current political instability in Egypt will affect the NPV of a foreign subsidiary located there, we should first establish a no-instability benchmark, which assumes that the operation there will generate the same level of profitability (adjusted for inflation) for the rest of time.

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Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills

Harvard Business Review

Learning from others’ experiences is an important aspect of professional development in surgery. That’s why academic surgical departments across the globe hold weekly Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conferences that gather surgeons together to review particular cases and share ideas for improving their practice.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.