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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business Review

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. But this close-up look at cash flows suggests new routes to helping families. households.

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

The customer needs the project completed by mid-2015. Ana writes in her journal: “The good news is we’re only 15% below our optimal staffing level of 70 FTEs. This would have been primarily a reallocation of some of the 2012 funds we didn’t use because of reduced staffing levels. It’s nose-to-the-grindstone time!”

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business Review

A recent analysis for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that only four of the 37 provider-sponsored health plans established since Obamacare was signed into law were profitable in 2015. All these problems contribute to diminished cash flows. The regular Medicare and commercial business. Physician employees.