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Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

It’s easy to see why competition drives down costs. The favored insurer passes along artificial cost increases directly to their customers, while disadvantaged competitors have to charge even higher premiums to continue offering access to offending providers. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co.

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The Hidden Costs of Cash

Harvard Business Review

And yet cash does carry costs. My colleague Benjamin Mazzotta and I have been studying the costs of cash across a wide range of countries: U.S., The use of cash involves several social costs to individuals — especially the poor — as well as business and the government. Mexico, Egypt and India. How can this be?

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The Costs of Racial Disparities in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In fact, eliminating racial disparities in health care is vital to pushing the entire health care system toward improving quality while containing costs — so-called value-based care. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Take our survey and download “How Not to Cut Health Care Costs” as a thank you.

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Why Chinese Firms' Cross-Border Deals Fall Apart

Harvard Business Review

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. billion in 2011 , but then had to retract because the companies could not agree on terms and struggled to get Chinese regulatory approval. If companies are incurring these costs unnecessarily they are destroying value.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

The cost of solar and wind are falling rapidly ; in fact, a few days before the new EPA announcement, Xcel Energy, which provides power to the American heartland, revealed that it was acquiring extensive wind and solar assets, “all at prices below fossil fuel alternatives.” California is also delivering some big results.

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How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The.

Terry Starbucker

Its CEO at the time was great at cutting costs and preserving capital, but investors weren’t buying it. And change it did, because the new CEO had a vision that went beyond product, and costs, and overhead, and costs of capital. This once proud company had taken a bunch of body blows, and was staggering – badly.

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What's Next For Guangdong?

Harvard Business Review

For instance, shoe-manufacturer Guangzhou Constant has relocated its manufacturing facility to Yongzhou in Hunan, lured by tax breaks and by the prospect of wage costs that are between 15% and 20% lower. While Guangdong's exports accounted for as much as 37% of China's exports by 2000, its share dropped to 28% in 2011.