Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Reducing the rate at which health care costs grow, and the proportion of U. health system grew by nearly 75%. Over half of the $2.6
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2011
Increases in retail translate into the creation of new jobs all along the huge supply chain that brings products to store shelves. That's one in four jobs, making retail the largest private sector employer, dwarfing the numbers seen in major fields such as manufacturing and health care. Retail contributes $2.5
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2012
About ten years ago they spread to financial services and, in the past five years, more deeply into health care and services. billion manufacturer of labels and office supplies, launched an internal online community in 2010 to improve collaboration and accelerate learning among its process improvement practitioners.
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).
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 23, 2011
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. The CFR paper tells the story of where U.S. jobs were gained and lost between 1990 and 2008.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 21, 2017
But many studies have estimated that the reduction in health care costs saves the economy, and thus all companies and citizens within that economy, tens of trillions of dollars. And that’s just direct health care benefits. There’s much more to keeping the economy clean. will follow his lead.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
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. And Americans convinced everything is now made in China might be interested to know that products made in China accounted for only 2.7%
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