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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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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. health care keeps getting costlier.

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Caption Contest 2010.3

Chris Brady

Posted by: Doug Hines | February 23, 2010 at 08:05 AM.And this one is of my husband displaying his logging skills. Posted by: Michael Davis | February 23, 2010 at 11:06 AM 4 wheels and a wheelbase.it's a trailer for hauling really big logs. You've waited long enough! You've waited long enough!  Enjoy! JUST DO IT!

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Demographics Could Give the U.S. a Competitive Edge

Harvard Business Review

competitiveness strikes a pessimistic tone about certain demographic facts — the education gap between young people and the jobs which are and will be available, the aging of the American population, and the related rise in health care costs. For example, the rate in Western Europe is 1.7, The March issue of HBR on U.S.

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Even Small Companies Can Tap Big Data If They Know Where to Look

Harvard Business Review

Founded in 2010 by Anthony Goldbloom and Jeremy Howard, the company seeks to make data science a sport, and an affordable one at that. For example, a marketing-services unit of credit reporting giant Experian sells frequently updated lists of names of expectant parents and families with newborns. Take Kaggle , for instance.

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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. For example, there is no agreed-upon way to measure urban revitalization. This is not an easy task.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Emergent firms would do well to follow their example.