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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.” The glacial pace at which banks have moved SME lending online has left them vulnerable.

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N.