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Don't Underestimate China's Luxury Market

Harvard Business Review

China's luxury market — and the global phenomenon of " trading up " — are well known. Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips, several doubters promptly questioned the pace of their long term growth. By 2010, the number had risen to 221 million. But times are changing.

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These 6 Sectors of Africa’s Economy Are Poised for Growth

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010. from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% between 2000 and 2010. trillion in 2015 to $3.5

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. Leading Change in Health Care. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. However, the evidence supporting mergers is uncertain at best.

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Rural China Offers Big Opportunities, Too

Harvard Business Review

In the 1980s, and even the early 1990s, rural life focused on farming, and it was a hard existence: most people were grindingly poor and lacked basic amenities, including decent schools and health care, paved roads, and a reliable power supply. But the rural markets have pockets of rising wealth. Approximately $6.2

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. area health care market has indeed shifted.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing.

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U.S. Health Care Reform Can’t Wait for Quality Measures to Be Perfect

Harvard Business Review

There’s a debate in the United States about whether the current measures of health care quality are adequate to support the movement away from fee-for-service toward value-based payment. Transforming Health Care. So far, the Trump administration has not weighed in. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.