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At the Veterans Health Administration, Ken Kizer, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994, inherited an antiquated, inefficient health-care system. The VA faced changes in its client population, the competitive healthcare environment, and modalities for delivering care.2 In just five years, Kizer instituted an electronic medical record system, made struc
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who has access to and control over the legal code and its masters:
Katharina Pistor • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
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22 Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padro-i-Miquel, Nancy Qian, and Yang Yao, “Accountability in an Authoritarian Regime: The Impact of Local Electoral Reforms in Rural China,” Yale University (2010), manuscript.
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Brenner, complex though he was, was perhaps the cultural icon of the Second Aliyah. His work, still considered brilliant, surfaced issues with which Israel continues to wrestle. He would have undoubtedly done even more than he managed in his brief life, but he was murdered by an Arab mob in the 1921 Jaffa riots.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Smith and Wagner exemplified the spirit of urban reform that characterized Tammany in 1911, though FDR had yet to recognize it.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Bakke would often introduce AES’s management practices to the new group of colleagues by asking them what assumptions owners and managers of a typical factory hold about their workers.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Pendant ce temps, le gouvernement Ebert et le Grand Quartier général, constatant les progrès des idées – et de la praxis – révolutionnaires parmi les ouvriers et la garnison de Berlin, se préparent à l’affrontement. D’une part, ils organisent une campagne de haine contre les spartakistes par affiches, tracts et journaux, qui tous agitent le spectre
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iii. Possui significativo controle de gastos e custos.