Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Before addressing that question directly, let’s start with some basic premises: Consumers need an ample choice of innovative, well-priced insurance products. If an insurer is large enough to reap more of the reward for its own efforts, the argument goes, it should be more likely to innovate.

Insurance 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? When and how should you implement it? Firms deploying a visionary approach also follow a distinct thought flow.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. When the Cayenne came to market in 2003, it was an instant hit. By 2015, it generated about half of Porsche’s total profit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

In 2015 low- and middle-income families devoted about one-third of their earnings to housing, and they have seen housing prices rise 25%–50% since the mid-1990s. The cost of a bachelor’s degree from a public college has risen by one-third from 2003 to 2014.

Health Care 13

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

album sales, both physical and digital, have plummeted from a peak of 785 million in 2000 to just 241 million in 2015. Looking at the academic research on the topic and our own data set of 2,400 top-selling albums from 1992 to 2015, two patterns about music quality emerged. at its peak in 2003. CDs) and downloaded songs (e.g.,

Download 8

Download Metrics Quality Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt. As proponents of open innovation, we have examined Quirky’s initial failure in great detail (the company relaunched earlier this year).

Case Study 8

Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Even the term “net neutrality” was coined not by an engineer but by a legal academic, in 2003. In the interest of exploring these issues, I’ve compiled some of the most important questions about net neutrality and the 2015 order, which grounded the rules in 1930s-era public utility law. More on that later.)

Objective 8

Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8