Hamburgers and hernias
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Business experts, such as Regina Herzlinger, believe that hospitals should be managed more like other businesses. Hospitals should particularly model their systems on the efficient fast food business, which makes food of the same quality efficiently and cheaply. Specialization of hospitals would be more efficient.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1997
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McCurrencies: where's the beef? How seriously should you take the Big Mac index?
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The Economist's Big Mac index has attracted serious respect as an indicator of purchasing power parity (PPP) in its ten years. The index compares the price of an identical set of goods, a McDonald's Big Mac, in a given country to the US. The actual exchange is expected to drift toward Big Mac PPP.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1996
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Where's the beef?
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McDonald's Chief Exec Jack Greenberg is a warm, very human man who now faces very tough challenges. The fast food firm is often attacked as a symbol of globalism, but in fact its management is not global enough. Greenberg's policy of devolved power and franchises has hit service standards.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2001
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