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What Harvey Is Teaching the Health Care Sector About Managing Disasters

Harvard Business Review

The other (Ranu) has been involved in responses to such public health disasters as the Ebola crisis in Africa, Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. When any one of these medical contact points closed, patients did not know where to go for their routine, ongoing health needs.

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The Future of Retail Depends on Today's Policy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

That's one in four jobs, making retail the largest private sector employer, dwarfing the numbers seen in major fields such as manufacturing and health care. NRF is working to fix or repeal the provisions in the 2010 health care reform law that are hostile to the future of the retail industry. Retail contributes $2.5

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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

Despite spending twice what other developed nations spend on a per capita basis for health care, the United States has a longstanding trend of having lower life expectancy, greater prevalence of chronic disease, and overall poorer health outcomes. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Three Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

First, they get inspired through personal observation, developing ideas from needs they see in the world around them. Second, they develop a concrete plan. During my 15 minutes in Joan's chair, we talked about three different industries she's involved in — personal service, health care, and transportation.

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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

We calculate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China and India will have consumed goods and services worth a total of $64 trillion. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million. Chinese consumers will spend $41.5 trillion over this period, with annual expenditures rising from $2.0

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The Ways Big Cities Think About Large-Scale Change

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Living Cities, a long-standing collaborative of 22 of the world’s leading foundations and financial institutions, created the Integration Initiative to accelerate the pace of change in U.S. Change on a grand scale requires people to come together in new and different ways, and to reimagine what’s possible.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? The contest is now shifting toward more-traditional industries, like transportation (Lyft and Uber, for example) and hospitality (Airbnb). trillion.