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A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

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 challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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Precision Medicine Could Have a Major Impact on Healthcare Outcomes and Costs - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business Review

The transformation of health care continues at a rapid pace, bringing opportunities and challenges for health care providers to deliver improved clinical outcomes at lower costs. And many health care systems continue to struggle to reliably deliver evidence-based care.

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Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. We also found seven other reasons Africa’s economy might leapfrog the economies of more developed nations.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Keeping Work Organized when Your Team Is Fragmented

Harvard Business Review

Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. The technology (browser-based apps and "cloud" infrastructure) for these apps didn't exist five years ago, according to Steve Christensen, CEO of Babbleware. In a previous post, I described how MITRE, which manages five research and development centers for the U.S.

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How Mormons Have Shaped Modern Management

Harvard Business Review

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. Fourth, a focus on developing leaders. As one data point, while something in the range of 1.9% of the U.S.