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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Ultimately, Edison’s commercial victories over Tesla were due not to the superior quality of Edison’s ideas but to differences in the men’s innovation capital. For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g., 2010): 253-269. [6] v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

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A Global Online Network Lets Health Professionals Share Expertise

Harvard Business Review

As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery. They would stimulate and ensure quality discussions in the communities by reviewing GHDonline’s content daily for precision and accuracy. (We The Launch.

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The IT Challenge of the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time.

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Financial Rewards Make People Suggest Fewer but Better Ideas

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one large Asian information technology services company decided to run an experiment to see if rewards could actually improve and encourage employee ideas. ” Younger employees had more ideas than older ones (after controlling for things like tenure), but tenure was positively correlated with the quality.

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A Role for Specialists in Resuscitating Accountable Care Organizations

Harvard Business Review

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Health information technology will support these new partnerships and foster team-based care.

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Searching for Health Care's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania demonstrates that treatments can be systematized to improve quality. Coordinating health care information technology requires government action, which was a decade slow in coming. There are examples of good care, visible like oases in the desert.

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Should Higher Education Be Free?

Harvard Business Review

According to the American Institute of Physics (PDF) , as of 2010, there are about 9,400 physics teachers teaching undergraduates every September in the United States. If we had 10 of the very best teach physics online and employed the other 9,390 as mentors, would most students get a better quality of education?