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Bank of America: Yesterday and Today

Coaching Tip

Over the last few decades, the US has transformed from a "real economy" (where capital market manias tend to be contained by the availability of savings and credit) to a "financial economy" where the unlimited availability of credit leads to speculative bubbles (read: the roaring '20s & '90s) which get totally out of hand.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working. New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals.

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6 Rules for Defense Start-Up Innovators

Strategy Driven

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. Inventors and programmers have found themselves swallowed up in vast bureaucracies, working on projects that they feel morally uncomfortable on and with less than savory people.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

Nearly two years ago, I wrote that the phenomenal economic and social potential of commercial drones, more properly called unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), was being stymied by a slow-moving Federal Aviation Administration. They have, instead, everything to do with bureaucracy and interest group politics. Both the U.K.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

A great idea, and the Simples Nacional taxation system has indeed turbocharged formalization of Brazil''s informal economy. Here, policy has created a distorted system, in which it is rational to want to stay small and suppress the drive for growth. have spread like wildfire. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

The company had drawn on pioneering Indian health care models, such as Aravind Eye Care System 's affordable cataract care, to help TMH design new ways to serve low-income patients. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices. Healthy Heart's first implant occurred in September 2010.