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Searching for Health Care's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. At first blush, it would appear that entrepreneurship is alive and well in health care. Think instead about other industries.

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Operational Improvement Has Improved

Harvard Business Review

About ten years ago they spread to financial services and, in the past five years, more deeply into health care and services. The growth of social technology for sharing and learning. New social technology has improved collaboration, sharing, and learning about process improvement internally and externally.

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A Role for Specialists in Resuscitating Accountable Care Organizations

Harvard Business Review

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Among the current remedies for U.S.

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The Health Care Reform That Can't Be Stopped

Harvard Business Review

There are few more personal, passionate, and political topics than health care. The reasons for this are clear: Health care spending has reached 17% of the U.S. But regardless of ACA's legal prognosis, the Pandora's Box of true health care reform has already been opened — and it happened before most of us realized.

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Can the "College Premium" Withstand Hyperspecialization?

Harvard Business Review

After serving as a dean at Harvard and Stanford, he was chair of the World Bank-sponsored Commission on Growth and Development from 2006 to 2010. Half of this job growth came in health care, government, retail, and construction. Many of these new jobs were a poor fit for manufacturing workers who had been displaced.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. A wealth of academic literature has documented how high-skilled immigrants, particularly in STEM , and including those who would enter the U.S.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

” I document this extensively in my forthcoming book, The Laws of Globalization , but let’s consider just a few examples. personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. In the U.S.,