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We Need To Rethink Our Mortality To Better Plan For Old Age

The Horizons Tracker

Decisions around health, work, finances, and living arrangements are all key in our latter years, and having a reasonable idea as to the likely length of our life is key to making good decisions. Of course, subjectively, men and women tend to have the same views on life expectancy, but women usually live longer, hence the discrepancy.

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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Such calls for more financial support for startups are not new, with former EU research commission Carlos Moedas arguing for an EU-run venture fund back in 2015, which eventually became the European Innovation Council (EIC) this year. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments.

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The Idea Is Not Enough

Strategy Driven

Maple arose from an idea from restaurateur and entrepreneur David Chang and debuted in Manhattan in the summer of 2015, offering a high level of service with gourmet lunches cooked in a dedicated restaurant and delivered to the customer in a quarter of an hour. Of course, it was an economically unsustainable decision.

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Lifelong Learning Is Good for Your Health, Your Wallet, and Your Social Life

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. Some people never really liked school in the first place, sitting still at a desk for hours on end or suffering through what seemed to be impractical courses. These experiences can be electrifying.

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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. In the P3 model, private financing fills holes in public budgets, and profit-oriented engineers and builders find efficiencies while government officials ensure that the public is well served.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business Review

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images. To many at the time, we were fools.

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Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better

Harvard Business Review

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. There’s another bias at play here, too: A 2015 paper in Organization Science, summarized in this HBR article , suggests that people overestimate the amount of conflict that actually exists on diverse teams.