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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. But Forus placed its bets on the lower cost CEMOS technology which the mobile phone industry embraced. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. In 2016, the U.S.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. Though the money supply did contract sharply, neither trade, commerce, nor industry came to a grinding halt. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% Globally, these are industries where the state is often the sole or dominant customer. From 2010-2015, the share of China-origin patents among all patents granted by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) was only 2.2%. in 2000 to 2.0% respectively.

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What China’s 13th Five-Year Plan Means for Business

Harvard Business Review

Shift the emphasis from investment and exports to domestic consumption: Among the three components of the GDP equation, China used to follow a Soviet style investment-driven policy and take full use of its low labor cost to become the “world’s factory.” Companies need to act now.

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Energy Policy Is Fundamental to U.S. Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, the energy industry must do a much better job informing the public and educating political leaders about the pragmatic realities we face and the difficult choices we must make. Sound energy policy can only emerge if the government, energy industry and the public have a shared understanding of the challenge.