Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Consequently, if we want new medical innovations to be financially viable for the patients who need it most, health insurance markets need to be regulated to eliminate the perverse financial incentives that limit patients’ coverage. Insurance markets are failing to deliver. First, a little background. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

For instance, larger scale has enabled many hospital systems to lower their per-patient operating costs significantly. However, reform and other market changes are altering the scale equation for hospital systems, so some of the traditional advantages that larger scale has traditionally brought them may no longer apply.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. What if concentrated market power of a few companies in an industry has made these companies more profitable than usual? Are all share repurchases myopic?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Even if the United States implemented all the approaches whose effectiveness has been measured, only 40% of the estimated $1 trillion of wasteful spending would be addressed, leaving a significant opportunity for innovation in all areas of health care. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. In healthcare, the need for administrative automation is viscerally felt – and the potential for alleviating burden and draining cost from the system is significant. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. It is now possible to shift a large part of the market research into the product development phase. First, you would do market research to gain some insight into a potential market or an underserved market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. Re-visit big, inflexible projects — The 80/20 rule often applies to corporate innovation portfolios; a few projects consume the lion's share of cash.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

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. After the 1970s, it spread to other sectors, with the rise in information technology a likely factor behind that. “Corporate concentration (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Technology is clearly part of it, as is the trend toward intangible investment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. .” So where is the link to health care?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. Skype , for example, competes with fixed-line carriers by offering free mobile Skype calls. Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. In the U.S., The trend is spreading.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. The company has invested heavily in 3D printing technologies that are flexible enough to produce a variety of products. Because the technology is still developing, they would need not only capital but also a good deal of technical expertise.

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