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Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

The Horizons Tracker

They only analyzed companies where the CEO was hired between 2011 and 2013, and who had also stayed in post until at least 2018. This could include offering more incentive-based compensation and implementing processes and structures to encourage innovation. The post Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

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Innovation Thrives Despite Piracy

The Horizons Tracker

It was a market that has suffered at the hands of pirates, who are believed to have cost the sector around $17 billion in revenue between 2013 and 2018. This implies that piracy can create a disincentive to create minor or incremental innovations such as bug fixes, but an incentive to create new products or major revisions.”

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We Need More Transparency on the Cost of Specialty Drugs

Harvard Business Review

Take Sovaldi, launched by Gilead Sciences in late 2013 as a treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and recently superseded by Gilead’s newest drug, Harvoni. Meanwhile, analysts’ predictions of total 2018 U.S. To understand how all of this works, you first have to see the payer’s point of view.

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We Need More Transparency on the Cost of Specialty Drugs

Harvard Business Review

Take Sovaldi, launched by Gilead Sciences in late 2013 as a treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and recently superseded by Gilead’s newest drug, Harvoni. Meanwhile, analysts’ predictions of total 2018 U.S. To understand how all of this works, you first have to see the payer’s point of view.

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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

As a result, the United States experienced five years of the lowest growth in health care costs ever in the 2009-2013 period — although an uptick in the rate in 2014 raises questions about what it will take to contain costs on a sustainable basis.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

billion in 2018, roughly half the world’s population. As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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