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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Technology-based companies can drive transformation in many existing markets of course – just look at the battles brewing between traditional taxi companies and Uber, a mobile app that connects passengers with drivers. In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

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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. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect. In the United States, our higher education system is broken.

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Women: The New Voices of Unions

Women on Business

Due to the worries over money, health care, benefits and decently paying jobs that don’t work you to pieces, organized labor unions are making a come back. Rose Ann also left college to join the workforce and organized cashiers in supermarkets as the first female for the Western Conference of Teamsters. Which seeks to have a.5

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Making Appointments Fast and Easy Must Be Health Care’s Top Priority

Harvard Business Review

I go to a lot of health care conferences and of late there’s a seemingly obligatory slide that crops up in nearly every PowerPoint. ” This is health care’s “ Triple Aim ” and it is definitely trending. No talk of profits, opening new markets, or any of the usual crowd pleasers.