Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Founded in Malawi in 2005, North Star is now a non-profit network of more than 30 roadside health centers, operating along major transportation corridors across Africa in countries including Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, serving hundreds of thousands of patients each year. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Inspired by this pattern, my wife, Annalisa Guzzini, an architect, and I developed a new cutting die that reduces total costs by 1% — a modest reduction, but not negligible in an industry with average profit rates of 8%. (To By the company’s own estimate, total labor costs rose 20-30%. (Our

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8