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What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential

Harvard Business Review

What if the sector had one coordinated force doing its advocacy, its media, its communications, its legal defense, and its grassroots organizing, and this was all connected to a merged effort to take the best practices of the evaluators and combine them into one powerful new information engine for the public?

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Bringing the Power of Platforms to Health Care

Harvard Business Review

At athenahealth, for example, we have a rules engine with 40 million billing rules (yes, there are that many ways to be denied) that enables us to execute our clients’ work more efficiently than they ever could alone. On any given day in America, 40% of hospital beds lie empty, their enormous fixed costs weighing heavily on the system.

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Will Personalized Medicine Mean Higher Costs for Consumers?

Harvard Business Review

It genetically re-engineers the patient’s own T-cells to attack the leukemic cells.) But the increase in premiums due to rare diseases would be small, even for an extraordinarily expensive drug like tisagenlecleucel, which the U.S. Problems may get worse.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

A company that misses one generation may find it hard to catch up, especially if it has also lost internal process engineering know-how. Another risk is the opportunity cost of not benefiting from lower investment costs.

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3D Printing Will Revive Conglomerates

Harvard Business Review

As I described in an article in the May issue of HBR , a single 3D printer can produce engine pumps one day and crankshafts the next. GE’s first additive manufacturing facility , a plant in Alabama, is set to make nozzles for jet engines. With 3D printing, however, industrial conglomerates are about to get a new lease on life.

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If Innovation Is Happening, Where Is The Creative Destruction?

The Horizons Tracker

One would assume that if the engines of innovation are working as the hype suggests, Schumpeter’s famous creative destruction would be happening at a rate seldom seen before. “Corporate concentration (e.g., shares of the top 1% or top 0.1% They also ponder whether it’s a trend that is likely to continue.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

This typically means they look to re-engineer the balance sheet to increase shareholder yield, over the shortest amount of time possible, which typically ranges between six to twelve months. However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact.

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