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How to Partner with Outside Innovators in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In my 20 years of researching and teaching innovation, one consistent theme stands out: breakthrough innovation often comes from outsiders. To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

Not long ago, many services such as tax accounting were delivered episodically and in-person, as most health care still is today. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations. The Leading Edge of Health Care. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Our experiences in both sectors have led us to this conclusion. Insight Center.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

Does being a physician inform leadership through a shared understanding about the motivations and incentives of other clinicians? ” Having spent their careers looking through a patient-focused lens, physicians moving into executive positions might be expected to bring a patient-focused strategy.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

In slightly more formal terms, Id suggest that they were able to take on, at least in tiny part, five of Robert Merton and Zvi Bodies six standard functions of a financial system: settling payments, providing information, setting incentives, pooling resources, and transferring resources.

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Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly

Harvard Business Review

His primary insight is that the frame one firm uses has to be able to counter their rivals incentive to jump to greater transparency and offer discounts. His primary insight is that the frame one firm uses has to be able to counter their rivals incentive to jump to greater transparency and offer discounts.

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