Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

But in health care, few things work as expected. One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Health care’s safety and quality challenges are exacerbated by its procurement problem. Health care is woefully underengineered.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

health care system, a new wave of analytics and technology could help dramatically cut costly and unnecessary hospitalizations while improving outcomes for patients. The Leading Edge of Health Care. The potential benefits from applying machine-learning analytics in health care are enormous.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. The Future of Health Care.

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Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. Boosting the productivity of health care is essential, given how fast this sector is growing. Innovation in health care is transforming the sector.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering. Engineering graduates are good at solving problems. On a similar note, last week, I gave a keynote speech on reverse innovation to students at University of Alabama in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines.

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Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! Alfred Eisenstaedt/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Organizations across sectors are looking closely at the technology to see what it can do for their business. In advanced manufacturing, by contrast, operations often drive the most value. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Supply Chain Retail Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. On June 27 this year the EU fined Google $2.7

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

They are also more likely to be publicly insured, have fair-to-poor self-reported health, and be susceptible to lack of coordination within the health care system.” ” Overall, these patients make up just 5% of the patient population, but account for nearly half the spending on health care in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology. It’s a budget decision, which depends on what the principle operation is.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. In a similar vein, hiring technology today uses key words to identify formal education or experience across thousands of résumés at a time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO’s success is best characterized as frugal engineering. ISRO used indigenous components and technologies that are far cheaper than foreign imports. Indian engineers cost less, for sure. The result: Narayana Health is able to perform open heart surgery at a cost of $3,000 — vs. $150,000 in the U.S. —

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Such challenging goals require leaders to operate in areas where the pathways aren't paved, and the moves aren't already choreographed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Roboticists are starting to reverse-engineer the human mind by translating the cognitive models that humans use intuitively into computational models that machines can use. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Learning-by-Doing Health Care Efficiency Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. We’ve found this to be true across industries, but particularly in health care. At GE, we don’t want to solve every problem alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Systems conceived and built 50-60 years ago should be reimagined for the 20 th century, whether high speed trains, innovative public transit, or technology-enabled roads and vehicles that tap the potential of sensors, smartphones, wireless networks, and Big Data for greener, cleaner, more efficient mobility. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

’s “once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world.” operational headquarters in Lexington, Massachusetts, which has been working with nearby Quincy College for the past several years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Resetting a health system’s cost structure also implies greater centralization and standardization, which goes against the grain of local facility leaders and clinicians. The result is akin to turning on a light bulb—it releases the energy needed to truly transform the quality and cost of care. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

In general, organized criminals are trying to steal things of high value, and one of the most valuable industries, in terms of cost, is health care. So what you see is that criminals are going after health records because on the black market they can probably sell a health record of a person for about $50.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., We wanted to know which were the strongest skills represented on boards and which were missing.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I would go even further to contend that multinational corporations— more than governments, and more than NGOs and nonprofits—have the human and financial capital, technology, international footprint, power of markets, and financial motivation to solve the world’s most daunting problems.

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Chemicals Health Care Resources Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Becoming Invisible As Objects Go Online Foreign Affairs The future of the Internet of Things is bright, especially in areas such as energy, health care, weather, and making cities more livable. As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Through satellite technologies, communications monitoring, and active tracking devices, he proceeds to do just that. But you can easily imagine who might be interested in such information: Insurance companies, health care providers, employment agencies, even the government. Who is tracking me?" Although the U.S.

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Telecommunications Wireless Follow-up Information 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

While this graying of the Boomer generation certainly has implications for health care and social policy (and for me personally, as one of those eventual retirees), it may have even more significance for the nature of the workforce and the job of the manager.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Americans are both undertreated and overtreated in a health care system that wastes up to $1 trillion a year and delivers profoundly uneven quality: Current estimates indicate that preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Information technology has come late to health care delivery.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. We’ve found this to be true across industries, but particularly in health care. At GE, we don’t want to solve every problem alone.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Even the known costs, such as penalties for data breaches in highly regulated industries like health care, are a small piece of the ROI calculation. It’s not just about data corruption — it’s also about how the bad data will reduce operational efficiency and bring production lines to a standstill.

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Execution ROI Metrics CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. Increasing income by giving handouts can only be counted as transfers and is unsustainable.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Thinking of her own cousin Guillermo Pombo, an engineer who had recently graduated from the University of Miami and was struggling to start his own business, Helena could see where Conrad was coming from. operations. And yet her instinct was to oppose the idea. “Is there anything Unamano can do for me? It didn’t have U.S.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Kaiser Permanente believes that as health care becomes more consumer-oriented, the digital experience becomes a key differentiator. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

On a separate track, he launched the device and content ecosystem, starting with iPod and iTunes, that would become the company’s new growth engine. Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

President Obama has some unfinished business to attend to, and taking care of it will require help and support from corporate leaders across the country. The good news is that we have the technology to detect and reduce leakage — and no one should be against common sense measures to prevent the waste of this precious natural resource.

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Cost Price Energy Proposal 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. In modern times, alternative health care concepts and practitioners have been embraced by all sectors of society.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 86

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. CRM has three principal objectives: Acquire new customers.

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