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- The Staggering Cost of Procrastination
- Think the time you spend answering e-mail, composing IMs, and trolling Twitter doesn't have an impact? Think again. A recent study by research firm Basex puts the "cost of unnecessary interruptions†in terms of lost productivity and innovation at a shocking $650 billion. Merlin Mann blogged about the cost of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- "Crunch" Time
- Feel like you're running on an economic hamster wheel, powering an economy that benefits only a relative few? Jared Bernstein's "Crunch" is for you. So says reviewer Harry Hurt III in A Rock, A Hard Place and an Exit Strategy. Hurt walks through Bernstein's discussion...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Flextime is Good for Employees' Health, Too
- The Find: Flextime has been shown to improve productivity and aid retention; now researchers have found it improves health and reduces absenteeism as well. The Source: Recent research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine published in the Psychologist-Manager Journal. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Comparative Effectiveness: Putting Medicine Under a Microscope
- Most people don't know it, but hard evidence as to which medical treatments actually work best is in awfully short supply here in the U.S. The growing scandal over the expensive cholesterol drug Vytorin, which appears to be no more effective than older, cheaper statin drugs, is just the latest...
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- "Health 2.0" vs. Consumer Apathy
- The notion advanced by enthusiasts of "Health 2.0" is both simple and appealing. A new generation of interactive Web services, they say, will arm individuals with data, tools and supportive online communities so they can take charge of their own medical care -- and in turn transform the broken U.S....
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Brian Machovina: Profitable Charity
- Brian Machovina is President of Nui, a children's water company that markets in health food stores across the Unites States. His company's charity model has proven to be a profitable venture with the use of positive marketing and the practice of broadening target demographics. Machovina talks in depth...
- Videos 2008-03-08
- When Too Much Control of the Press Interview is a Bad Thing
- Last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced Google Health, a new health information service at a press conference at the HIMSS health care information trade show. Afterward, he granted a one-on-one interview to CNET's Elinor Mills, who, you may remember, pissed off Google and Schmidt a couple of years ago...
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Disruptive Innovation for Social Change
- Good enough innovations may be the best drivers of social change. The Idea in Brief The U.S. spends more money on health care than any other nation. Yet many less...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- What's the Best Business Book of the Year?
- 2007 is drawing to a close which means, of course, that it's the season for superlatives. Best and worst lists are as common as Christmas carols this time of year, and today the New York Times has an interesting addition to this December tradition. Alan Greenspan came out with a...
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Where is the Steve Jobs of Health Care?
- Big markets attract innovators, right? US health care is a $2 trillion operation. And nearly everyone would agree the American system is outrageously expensive, leaves out large chunks of the population, and provides incredibly poor customer service. Normally a market opportunity like this would attract innovators...
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Study Shows Managers Aren't Ensuring Their Companies' Long-Term Survival
- Do you know the average life expectancy of corporations in general? A new study shows many business leaders don't; managers in young organizations shoot too low, and managers in older ones shoot too high. It's actually less than 50 years. And according to the research, the older an organization, the higher the...
- Blog posts 2007-11-21
- CEOs to Managers: You're Not Up to Snuff
- What's the biggest HR concern among CEOs? With the recent strike at GM and all the talk on the presidential campaign trail about America's growing number of uninsured, you might guess healthcare. Perhaps, after Bill Gates' call for an end to a limit on visas for skilled foreign workers, you'd...
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- GM Pays the Price For Refusing to Heed Advice
- The UAW strike at GM may have only lasted two days, but the underlying issues generating the conflict between the union and auto manufacturers are much longer lived. Primary among these is the burgeoning health care liability of the big 3 auto makers. Though GM's American workforce...
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Mental Health Study Urges Employers: Bring Out Your Depressed!
- Most companies don't make ensuring their employees' mental health a priority. New research shows this is a mistake -- if we're talking about depression, that is. A year-long study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, revealed the financial benefits of getting depressed employees into treatment: Employees who got...
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Cost of Health Insurance vs. Education
- Inflation is clipping at a modest 2.8%; wage growth is slightly lower. But the two things politicians love to talk about -- health insurance and college education -- they're booming! Today we'll see which will win in the figurative boxing ring of rising costs: health or education? To get the...
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- The Weight's Over: Should Fat People Pay More for Health Insurance?
- In a previous blog, we questioned whether or not employers should encourage healthy lifestyles to increase productivity. If discounted gym memberships and healthy vending machine alternatives -- no doubt, placed next to Snickers bars -- don't do the trick, new regulations may. Companies can now charge unhealthy overweight...
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- How Much Is Your Company's Healthcare Liability?
- GM has a total healthcare liability of $64 billion. No wonder the ongoing talks with the UAW are tense and the industry as a whole is struggling to compete (for a fascinating look at how the way America pools risk handicaps auto makers, check out this article by Malcolm Gladwell)....
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Should Managers Encourage Healthy Lifestyles?
- It's a manager's responsibility to get the maximum productivity out of her team while ensuring her employees are happy at work. But what about healthy? Chronic disease and absenteeism due to illness certainly cost a company through both lost productivity and direct healthcare costs. Plus encouraging employees health might be...
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- Observing Health and Safety at Work
- Regardless of size, all businesses have a legal responsibility to protect the health and safety of their employees and visitors to their workplaces and offices, and a range of federal and state laws exist to ensure that responsibility is met. This article explains the main steps you must take for...
- Articles 2007-06-26
- Transparency in Healthcare?
- Last year, the Department of Health & Human Services HHS launched the Value-Driven Health Care initiative to create "transparency" in the heatlhcare system to drive down costs and improve quality of care. HHS is looking to American businesses to take an active role, and in the year since the initiative...
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
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