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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. For instance, all FDA approved medicines were purchased at one-tenth the cost for the same medicines in the U.S.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

But the ways people''s knowledge, skills and expertise get plugged into the workplace has been. It''s not that troubled economies and disruptive innovations inherently shed more jobs than they create; it''s that ongoing global restructuring of markets makes temporary and/or part-time employment more attractive for more organizations.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I argued in that post that the increasing ease of innovation meant that entrepreneurs were destined to become commodities. All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior.