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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 2012, Dinesh Seemakurty, a bio-medical engineering student at University of Southern California was visiting India.

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A New CEO's Reinvention Road Map

Harvard Business Review

We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500.

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Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places: Memo to the President

Harvard Business Review

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. So please trust me when I say that one of the biggest roadblocks to job creation is the huge logjam at the patent office that prevents entrepreneurs from getting the patents they need to obtain venture funding.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.