Intermountain Healthcare Case Study Gina L. Turley Northwestern University In the Harvard Business School case study of Intermountain Health Care (IHC)‚ we learned about the efforts made by IHC to adopt a new strategy for managing health care delivery that is focused on improving care quality while simultaneously saving money. Beginning in 1986 as a series of experiments tying cost outcomes to traditional clinical trials‚ IHC’s approach to delivering care became known as “Clinical Integration”
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2013 Book Review. Hate Crimes: Criminal Law and Identity Politics by James Jacobs and Kimberly Potter Due to a huge number of different groups of people in America‚ it is unavoidable that bad conducts which are motivated by prejudices between these groups have been existed for a long time. The degree of seriousness of the bad conducts also varies. Some are simply normal prejudices‚ but some transform into crimes. These crimes are defined as “hate crimes”. The book “Hate Crimes: Criminal Law and Identity
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Obeying the law is a general moral obligation. Usually‚ laws are written from societal ethical codes; therefore the law can embody morality. Obeying the law usually implies the greatest good for the greatest number of people and therefore complies with Mill’s utilitarianism. Especially if the law reflects general morality or protects people from pain‚ such as the admonition against murder‚ utilitarian theorists would argue that obeying the law is a general moral obligation. However‚ there are certain
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Systems and Knowledge Management From his office window overlooking the main floor of the Harvard Cooperative Society‚ CEO Jerry Murphy can glance down and see custom- ers shopping. 19 They make their way through the narrow aisles of the crowded department store‚ picking up a sweatshirt here‚ trying on a baseball cap there‚ checking out the endless array of merchandise that bears the Harvard University insignia. Watching Murphy‚ you can well imagine the Co-op’s found- ers‚ who started
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The Harvard Management Company and Inflation Protected Bonds The Harvard Management Company is an entity wholly owned by Harvard University and it is responsible for managing Harvard’s endowment and pension assets. At the end of the second quarter of 2000‚ Harvard Management Co. oversaw the management of $19 billion‚ the majority of it managed internally by Harvard’s investment professionals. The endowment’s goal is to provide a real return of 6%-7%‚ of which 4%-5% would be distributed annually
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FOUNDATION CFC YOUTH FOR CHRIST CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS PREAMBLE We the students and members of CFC Youth for Christ in ANGELES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION‚ Angeles City having experienced the Lord Jesus‚ touching and changing our lives‚ see the need of personally taking up the call of our Institute and of the Church to proclaim Christ’s message to all men and especially to our fellow students. In drawing up this Constitution and By-laws we put down in writing and signify our individual and
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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW ASSIGNMENT – I RULE OF LAW IN INDIA ARUSHI LOHIA R.NO – 013 DIVISION – A E-MAIL – Arushi.lohia@symlaw.ac.in Rule of Law Aristotle said two thousand years ago‚ “The rule of law is better than that of any individuals”. The rule of law is a system of rules and rights that enables fair functioning of the societies. The World Justice Project‚ an initiative of the United Nations defines this system as one in which the following four principles are upheld1: 1. The Government and
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LAW DEVELOPMENT CENTER NAME: SUNNA HILAL LUQMAN Answer to the question; BREIF FACTS: Peter reads an advertisement in the new vision of a special x-mas discounted fare of shs 20000 only to Arua by the executive coach bus company but on reaching he was told that the offer was only for the first ten customers and he was not eligible which made him pay 40000 for a regular seat. His suitcase with clothes valued at 1000000shs was given to another passenger whose suitcase was given to peter since
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be the effect of a contract entered into with a bankrupt and what kind of remedies were there have for such contracts. Explanation of relevant law According to the Contracts Act 1950‚ under section 2(h)‚ an agreement enforceable by law is a contract. Furthermore‚ S. 2(h) of the Contracts Act 1950 states that any agreement which is not enforceable by the law is said to be void. To have an enforceable contract there must be offer and acceptance. In Section 2(a) stated that a proposal is made when one
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between the role of criminal law and civil law in relation to the legal system and analyse the purpose of the law. Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It might be defined as the body of rules that defines conduct that is prohibited by the state because it is held to threaten‚ harm or otherwise endanger the safety and welfare of the public‚ and that sets out the punishment to be imposed on those who breach these laws. [1] The criminal law serves several purposes and benefits
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