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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Moving from command-and-control leadership behaviors to improvement leadership behaviors will be required. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014. So, they create workarounds, which result in defects and, in some cases, deaths.

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

Harvard Business Review

It all starts, as the stories below show, with purpose-driven leadership: a determination to provide high-quality, ultra-affordable health care to all, regardless of ability to pay: Saving Eyesight at a Fraction of the Cost. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010.