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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Not" is not a typo. have spread like wildfire. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 billion).

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