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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. The ramifications for traditional care providers typically dominated by hospitals is going to be big and may happen fast. So, the market is heading back to the future.

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Certainly, those transaction costs have to be balanced against the drag created by bloated bureaucracy, and the soul-crushing work that characterizes too many companies. In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. But it is a cost nonetheless.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

In late 2010 I visited The Mission Hospital (TMH) in Durgapur, a modest town by Indian standards (population about 1 million), nestled in India's northeast corner, near Bangladesh. Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach. Healthy Heart's first implant occurred in September 2010.