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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Spurring renewable innovation. The researchers highlight that despite the invasion prompting many countries to double down on renewable innovation, others have responded by doubling down on domestic production of fossil fuels. Instead, it is participation in initiatives like Mission Innovation , which has done. Energy funding.

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Fixing Pharma’s Incentives Problem in the Wake of the U.S. Opioid Crisis

Harvard Business Review

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. How did the making and marketing of drugs like OxyContin go so terribly wrong? has quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). .”

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Price Gouging and the Dangerous New Breed of Pharma Companies

Harvard Business Review

I met Tony in 2001 when he was sent to me with severe muscle weakness. In 2001 Questcor bought the rights to Acthar Gel, which is used to treat infantile spasms, a rare form of childhood epilepsy. The costs required to bring a new drug to market vary widely — anywhere from hundreds of millions to upwards of $2.6

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. MirageC/Getty Images. The S&P and the Dow indexes are up 18% and 19%, respectively.

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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. Investors grapple daily in an effort to figure out how to value companies whose accounting assets — things like land, capital, products, and licenses — don't adequately express their true market value. If ego and time allow, the list can be quite long.

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What Happens If Apple Starts Making Cars

Harvard Business Review

Apple fanboys and Samsung’s “Next Big Thing”ers would hoot with derisive laughter if The Wall Street Journal or Financial Times reported that GM or Ford planned to rewrite the rules of smartphone innovation. ” when Ron Johnson began rolling out Apple Stores in 2001. They should. Don’t bet against him.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. And the result of an undersupply of disclosure is toxic, perverse incentives. My guess is that, like updating GDP for the 21st century, real-time corporate reporting could create new markets, companies, and much-needed jobs.

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