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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

Successful companies are notoriously prone to pursuing tactical fixes rather than confronting strategic problems. They exhort their people to try harder, introduce overhead cost reduction programs, and reorganize – anything rather than admit that their strategy needs an overhaul. Aldi offers not just low prices, but convenience.

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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

In order to accomplish this, proposals will largely focus on what is termed “wasteful spending” in health care, spending not associated with improved quality that, by some estimates , accounts for over one-fourth of total health care spending.

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Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses

Harvard Business Review

A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support our traditional version of the American Dream: the highly leveraged, high-fixed-cost house; the cars; the latest consumer goods. If you had a full-time job, you won.