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What Is The Future Of Ageing Populations?

The Horizons Tracker

The report revolves around 22 peer-reviewed evidence reviews and expert meetings that aimed to debate everything from health and care to housing. Central to this shift is moving away from the three-stage life that has dominated for much of the industrial era, which sees people study when young, then work before retiring.

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A Way to Gauge How Well Your Company Is Really Performing

Harvard Business Review

When Jack Welch was CEO of GE, he famously tasked each business with achieving number 1 or number 2 status in its industry, a goal-setting principle that echoes across the decades. For example, what if your industry has just a few key players, and they’re perennial poor performers? Is it wise to compare yourself only with them?

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Why the Future of Social Science Is with Private Companies

Harvard Business Review

The Reproducibility Project found it could substantively replicate the results of fewer than 40% of 100 high-profile experiments published in peer-reviewed journals. The incentives are such that research academics might be tempted to overstate outcomes in ways post-industrial researchers are not.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Digital therapeutics are being increasingly validated in clinical trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals and are available or are being developed for most chronic diseases. An additional 32% of the population has “pre-diabetes” – meaning that they are at high risk of developing diabetes.

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Rushing Back From Covid-19 Could Be Hugely Dangerous

The Horizons Tracker

The team were striving to understand the best way to keep people, and the economy, safe until a vaccine is developed, which the team assumed was 76 weeks. Data was sourced from a wide range of peer-reviewed sources, to give them a full picture of the pandemic. Until a vaccine.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

There are real benefits to this real-time business capability: getting to market faster, capturing value quicker, more immediate responsiveness to customer needs. It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. HubSpot’s Small Development Teams and “Feature Gates”.

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10 Tactics for Launching a Product Using Social Media

Harvard Business Review

The new launch landscape levels the playing field for brands of all sizes and industries when reaching consumers–yet the ability for consumers to share their opinions freely on social media can provide huge hurdles for brand messaging. When it comes to choosing media to support a new product launch, consider the target market.

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