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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% A comparison between China and India provides a stark contrast. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Doctors Feel Excluded from Health Care Value Efforts

Harvard Business Review

physicians in eight specialties, 100 health system finance officers, as well as 100 health system procurement officers — the people in charge of buying supplies for hospitals. A comparison of our 2015 and 2017 survey findings shows a notable slowdown in the adoption of value-based payment models.

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Running a State Health Insurance Marketplace

Harvard Business Review

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. A new consumer mindset. Financial challenges.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

By comparison, male directors are more than twice as likely to identify as Republicans than Democrats. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance. ” As with the general public, we found differences among demographic groups.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Without this utmost good faith backed by hundreds of years of successful, albeit somewhat slow, claim payments, the global insurance industry would pale in comparison to the more than $5 trillion in premiums it garners today.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. But in April, just after U.S.