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HOSPITAL INSURANCE

Health insurance for hospital costs. The insured must pay a monthly fee for private insurance. Federal or state employees do not.

HALO EFFECT

Sharing good feelings about one element of a product or person to another. It can be unrelated. It is different from the devil’s horns.

HANDS-ON INVESTOR

An investor with many shares that is not satisfied or wants to be active in decision making. They influence the company.

HARD MANUFACTURING

Using fixed production equipment to make large amounts of a product. It cannot be easily moved to make room for a new product.

HARMONIZATION

Changing differences on different measurements and procedures or schedules to make them unicorm and compatible.

HEAD HUNTER

A recruitement angency that finds personnel and make them a candidate for a job.

HEAT EXCHANGER

Equipment transfering heat form one item to another. It can be a readiator. Refer to heat sink.

HEAVY METAL

They can be Arsenic, Beryllium, Cadmium, Chromium, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, Selenium, and Manganese. They are used in industrial process and carried by air or water. They stay in organs and can be

HERTZBERG’S TWO FACTOR THEORY

The idea that employee satisfaction can motivate or cause dissatisfaction in performance. Frederick Herzberg researched this in the 1950s.

HIERARCHY OF EFFECTS

The give steps of consumer passes. It is awareness, interest, evaluation, conviction, and purchase.

HIGH TRUST SYSTEM

Working with great autonomy and control that uses accountability and responsibility.

HINDSIGHT BIAS

The idea that an event can be predicted after it has already happened.

HOME HEALTH CARE

Care in a patient’s home done by nurses, aids, and therapists part time.

HOMOSKEDASTIC

A structure error that shows errors over the sample. There is no pattern to this error.

HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION

Merging companies on the same production stage. If the products are similar competitors merge. If the market is different it is a monopoly. AKA lateral integration. Refer to vertical integration.

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