Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly 8:25 AM Tuesday November 30, 2010 by Joshua Gans | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print This years holiday shopping season improved somewhat over last year with sales likely to top $11 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

growth rate this year to a slowdown in exports and the government's intervention to stave off inflation and rein in property prices. As we reported in our book, in China, annual per-capita income is projected to rise, on average, from about $4,400 in 2010 to $12,300 in 2020; in India, it will increase from $1,500 to $4,400.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010. from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% between 2000 and 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

These aren't controversial production-side subsidies (of the kind that have been challenged as contravening international trade agreements) but rather incentivizing domestic subsidies intended to help Chinese citizens and organizations to purchase solar systems at an affordable price. This week, the share price of Trina Solar Ltd.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

When it comes to health care costs, America’s employers are at a crossroads. That means that to control costs going forward, employers may have to confront the true underlying causes of rising health care expenditures: high prices and health care inefficiencies. The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The apparent business model of Big Pharma emphasizes the billions spent at great risk to find "innovative" and "breakthrough" new molecules that must be priced high to recover research costs that have become "unsustainable." See The Risks of Prescription Drugs (Columbia 2010). These cost employers even more in hidden ways.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Look as well to health care. A great deal of the argument made in 2010 by those in favor of U.S. The resulting improvements in product design, pricing, packaging and service will drive even higher customer expectations around personalization, control, relevance, and timeliness — and so on, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Founded in 2010 by Anthony Goldbloom and Jeremy Howard, the company seeks to make data science a sport, and an affordable one at that. Data brokers such as Acxiom and DataLogix can provide companies with extremely valuable data at reasonable prices. New, inexpensive ways to learn from data are emerging all the time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The report also highlighted that companies across many sectors, such as manufacturing and health care, have captured less than 30% of the potential from their data and analytics investments. Early failures are often used to slow or completely end these investments.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

For instances, the aging of baby boomers is predictably driving the growth of health-care-related occupations. Relative productivity growth initially causes growth in emerging sectors as prices drop and nascent demand grows. A shift in information-intensive services. Not immediately and not everywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Needless to say, this approach has not worked in reaching lower and middle income segments of emerging markets that require price and marketing strategies that fit both consumers' ability to pay and the nature of the purchasing environment, which is often more diffuse than in the U.S. and other traditionally developed markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

For example, a few years ago we helped Medtronic formulate and deploy a business model to bring pacemakers to patients in India who historically either didn’t know they needed the device or couldn’t afford its $1,000 price tag (since most Indians pay for health care directly).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Wall Street Journal says that Prada's dazzling numbers reflect Chinese consumers' increasingly refined tastes, making Prada's high quality leather goods, with high price points and subtle logos, that much more attractive. trillion, with annual expenditures increasing from $2 trillion in 2010 to more than $6 trillion in 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Despite the current uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care leaders must not let debates over access detract from what needs to happen regardless of the legislation’s fate: Their organizations must improve the value of care they deliver. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

Between 2003 and 2010, obesity rates among teens whose parents have no more than a high-school education rose from about 20% to 25%. The answer is complicated, but a good starting point is to look at the role of schools, neighborhoods, and health care professionals. But our research shows that the gap is growing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

At the highest level, women have made barely a dent; of the 100 top-performing CEOs in the world, according to HBR's January-February 2010 issue, exactly one was female. What Your Stock Price Really Means. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care. Watch for our January-February 2013 issue, which revisits this study.).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Consider ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, which eliminated its budgeting process in 2010. due to inflation, salary increases) to maintain margin in an environment of downward pressure on prices. But the tight-fisted approach winds up being wasteful, and there is a better way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Let’s look at four value chains Apple could disrupt, each of which in markets that, on the face of it, seem large enough to offer hope: television, advertising, health care, and automobiles. But the critical asset in that value chain is the viewership data that Nielsen provides, which sets the price for advertising.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Since 1980, we''ve seen a 400% increase in the cost of higher education, after adjustment for inflation — a higher cost escalation than any other industry, even health care. But when it comes to core classes which don''t require labs or much in-person faculty interaction, does the current model justify the value-price equation?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

If they were required to purchase a seat to strap their car carrier into, it would increase the price of the trip for their parents, who would then be more likely to drive. By forcing people to purchase additional seats it would inevitably drive up the demand and therefore the price of airline tickets (and I fly quite a bit).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

President Obama has some unfinished business to attend to, and taking care of it will require help and support from corporate leaders across the country. After 2010, climate all but disappeared from the national conversation. Put a price on carbon. He delivered on the first two. Hurricane Sandy put it back on the map.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The system for paying health care providers is extremely fragmented. In response, both the United States and the Netherlands are now experimenting with bundled-payment models , whereby a single prospective payment is made for all services for a patient with a given condition, even when multiple providers deliver that care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Based in Appleton, Wisconsin, ThedaCare is a five-hospital health system with 26 clinics, other allied services, and more than 6,000 employees. It has been a pioneer in applying lean methodology in health care in order to tackle quality and cost issues. Leading Health Care Innovation. Health Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The estimated return on these (fewer) products has itself declined substantially since 2010, from 10.1% This represents a disquieting trend for companies whose profit growth heavily depends on price increases. Undoubtedly, these findings (and related controversies over drug prices) further undermined trust in the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Others cite the nine organizations leaving the program and the humbling results of a prior ACO experiment in Medicare — the Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD) that ran from 2005 to 2010 — as reasons to be pessimistic. The basic market failures in health care are still with us. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Enhance individual well-being through social welfare and health care reforms: Improving social welfare and health care provision can bring down very high levels of precautionary savings by Chinese citizens, freeing up resources for consumption. All point in the direction of further embracing competitive market mechanisms.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Among those who do not have a broadband connection at home, availability and price are rarely cited as the principal reasons, as repeated surveys make clear. That was a problem identified as long ago as 2010, in the visionary National Broadband Plan , from which the Clinton agenda cribs frequently (without any apparent acknowledgment).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

The question of whether the United States will have functioning markets where individuals can buy health care insurance lies at the heart of the current debate about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). health care system. Private markets were failing before the ACA.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

True health care reform will happen when care is redesigned around the patient, not the doctor or hospital; when the financial incentives reward better health outcomes rather than hospital beds filled; and when the consumer has access to information to make good choices. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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