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What Is the Business of Health Care?

Harvard Business Review

The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. Kodak had built a successful enterprise producing cameras, film, and photographic paper and chemicals, but what people wanted was images, and so when a better way to get those images was found, its customers followed. What Business Are We In? bankruptcy court.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. China Hi-Tech Fair ready to highlight emerging industries ," which describes Chinas largest tech show going on this week in Shanghai.

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Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies

Harvard Business Review

The company provides services in a myriad of industries, such as health care, water treatment, aviation, and financing. .” However, GE’s annual revenues last year were $117 billion, and it had over 300,000 employees.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Ultimately, 84% of the dollars requested are addressed through an adjustment to the bill prior to it being sent, with the remainder being refunds after patient payment. We move pretty quickly on these. We don’t want to make the experience worse by also bungling the refund request.

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Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing

Harvard Business Review

Process : Investments that pay careful attention to business practices, such as “fair trade” coffee, equitable labor practices in a supply chain, or buy-one-give-one models that provide access to goods and services to those in need.

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

Harvard Business Review

Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).