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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business Review

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Transforming Health Care.

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Companies for Social Good

Women on Business

This became very important after the 2010 earthquake devastated the country. Existing companies also have a large opportunity to incorporate social good into their business model. This is a good example of a for profit company meeting the needs of a community while partnering with a non profit and government agency.

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Big Pharma's Hidden Business Model and How Your Company Funds It

Harvard Business Review

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. These cost employers even more in hidden ways.

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The Media Industry is the Canary in the Coalmine

Harvard Business Review

Look as well to health care. A great deal of the argument made in 2010 by those in favor of U.S. Whole new value chains are being created--and that demands new business models and new revenue models in particular.

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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

A more plausible explanation for Cipla's success, we believe, is that it matches its business model to the markets it want to grow in, rather than attempting to force a developed market business model on markets where it does not fit. and other traditionally developed markets. to develop and produce an improved first?line

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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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Should Higher Education Be Free?

Harvard Business Review

Since 1980, we''ve seen a 400% increase in the cost of higher education, after adjustment for inflation — a higher cost escalation than any other industry, even health care. Neither the pedagogical model nor the value equation of traditional higher education have changed much in the past fifty years.