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The Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next

Harvard Business Review

About a decade ago, wireless carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint tightly controlled the wireless telecom value chain through the critical asset – so-called “walled gardens” they had placed around their service that prevented users from putting any nonauthorized content on their phones. for three years.

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Vaccine Literacy, a Crucial Healthcare Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The scientific, medical and public health establishment continues to provide evidence of the value of immunization. This means that nearly 23.5

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

In late 2010 I visited The Mission Hospital (TMH) in Durgapur, a modest town by Indian standards (population about 1 million), nestled in India's northeast corner, near Bangladesh. Healthy Heart's first implant occurred in September 2010. During my visit I saw a pilot of Medtronic's innovative business model in action.

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How Mayo Clinic Is Using iPads to Empower Patients

Harvard Business Review

An effort under way at the Mayo Clinic shows how such technology can be used to improve outcomes and lower costs in health care. Defining the care a patient can expect to receive and what the road to recovery will look like is crucial. Recovery Planning information on how patients should care for themselves after discharge.

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A Brief Review of Hillary Clinton’s Innovation Plan

Harvard Business Review

On the plus side of the ledger, Clinton promises to continue President Obama’s support for next-generation mobile networks, known as 5G, which utilize densely packed cellular antennae and higher-band radio spectrum to offer as much as 100 times the speed and capacity of today’s wireless internet.