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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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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. 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. Stop Requiring College Degrees.

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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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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.

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Should CEOs Get Involved in Politics?

Harvard Business Review

At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping. Discussing health care with HBR's Justin Fox, Gorsky said, "It concerns me when we politicize it," because it's so intertwined with the economy, and so many of our current economic issues can be tied back to it.