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3 Mistakes in U.S. Health Care That Emerging Economies Can’t Afford to Repeat

Harvard Business Review

Second, given that many emerging economies depend on outside funds to help them build health care infrastructure, demonstrating the potential to grow and be profitable using familiar business models tends to attract private investment to the sector and people to the profession.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

Robin Li, founder of China’s largest search-engine, Baidu, is a talented software engineer who returned to China from the U.S. Searching for new ideas at Haier involves a competitive screening of business model proposals, open to all, out of which projects and project leaders are chosen. billion business after two years.

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When Do Regulators Become More Important than Customers?

Harvard Business Review

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Which customer had the biggest impact on new value creation? What customer would matter most in five years? The answer, he declared, was now obvious.